My environment: UbuntuMATE 20.04 on Amd64 box
Linux hostname 5.4.0-176-generic #196-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 22 16:46:39 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Log of attempted install session:
root@OasisMega1:~# apt install mariadb-server -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
bogofilter bogofilter-bdb bogofilter-common cli-common espeak-ng-data gir1.2-gtkspell3-3.0 libchamplain-0.12-0 libchamplain-gtk-0.12-0
libdotconf0 libenca0 libespeak-ng1 libgdiplus libgfortran-10-dev libglib2.0-cil libgnome-autoar-gtk-0-0 libgtk2.0-cil libjbig-dev
libjxr-tools libllvm11 libllvm9 liblzma-dev libmecab2 libmessaging-menu0 libmono-cairo4.0-cil libmono-corlib4.5-cil
libmono-i18n-west4.0-cil libmono-i18n4.0-cil libmono-posix4.0-cil libmono-security4.0-cil libmono-system-configuration4.0-cil
libmono-system-core4.0-cil libmono-system-drawing4.0-cil libmono-system-numerics4.0-cil libmono-system-security4.0-cil
libmono-system-xml4.0-cil libmono-system4.0-cil libnetcdff7 libpcaudio0 libphonenumber7 libpst4 libsonic0 libspeechd2 libtiffxx5
libvpx-dev libxpm-dev libytnef0 linux-headers-5.4.0-173 linux-headers-5.4.0-173-generic linux-image-5.4.0-173-generic
linux-modules-5.4.0-173-generic linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-173-generic mono-4.0-gac mono-gac mono-runtime mono-runtime-common
mono-runtime-sgen optipng python3-apsw python3-attr python3-brlapi python3-defusedxml python3-feedparser python3-html2text
python3-html5-parser python3-ifaddr python3-jinja2 python3-louis python3-mechanize python3-msgpack python3-odf python3-pyatspi
python3-pypeg2 python3-pyqt5.qtopengl python3-pyqt5.qtquick python3-pyqt5.qtsql python3-pyqt5.qtsvg python3-pyqt5.qtwebchannel
python3-pyqt5.qtwebengine python3-repoze.lru python3-routes python3-ruamel.yaml python3-sane python3-speechd python3-zeroconf
sound-icons ubuntu-touch-sounds
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
mariadb-server-10.3 mariadb-server-core-10.3
Suggested packages:
mariadb-test tinyca
Recommended packages:
libhtml-template-perl
The following NEW packages will be installed:
mariadb-server mariadb-server-10.3 mariadb-server-core-10.3
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 10.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 107 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64 mariadb-server-core-10.3 amd64 1:10.3.39-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 [6,250 kB]
Get:2 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64 mariadb-server-10.3 amd64 1:10.3.39-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 [4,202 kB]
Get:3 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64 mariadb-server all 1:10.3.39-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 [12.7 kB]
Fetched 10.5 MB in 1s (8,330 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package mariadb-server-core-10.3.
(Reading database ... 545075 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../mariadb-server-core-10.3_1%3a10.3.39-0ubuntu0.20.04.2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking mariadb-server-core-10.3 (1:10.3.39-0ubuntu0.20.04.2) ...
Selecting previously unselected package mariadb-server-10.3.
Preparing to unpack .../mariadb-server-10.3_1%3a10.3.39-0ubuntu0.20.04.2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking mariadb-server-10.3 (1:10.3.39-0ubuntu0.20.04.2) ...
Selecting previously unselected package mariadb-server.
Preparing to unpack .../mariadb-server_1%3a10.3.39-0ubuntu0.20.04.2_all.deb ...
Unpacking mariadb-server (1:10.3.39-0ubuntu0.20.04.2) ...
Setting up mariadb-server-core-10.3 (1:10.3.39-0ubuntu0.20.04.2) ...
Setting up mariadb-server-10.3 (1:10.3.39-0ubuntu0.20.04.2) ...
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/mysql.service → /lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/mysqld.service → /lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/mariadb.service → /lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service.
{ at this point a progress bar is displayed and the process hangs at about 69% }
{ after waiting 15 minutes with no visible progress, I terminate the install by
entering the command '/bin/systemctl stop mariadb.service' }
Job for mariadb.service canceled.
Setting up mariadb-server (1:10.3.39-0ubuntu0.20.04.2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (245.4-4ubuntu3.23) ...
root@OasisMega1:~#
I did a full apt purge before each of two re-attempts, and it still hung up each time at the same spot.
Any ideas on how to overcome the roadblock?
