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Both the Admin Console and zmcontrol status report that the mysql service is down. However the service is actually running.
Both the Admin Console and zmcontrol status report that the mysql service is down. However the service is actually running.

Latest revision as of 11:28, 30 March 2015

Symptom

Both the Admin Console and zmcontrol status report that the mysql service is down. However the service is actually running.

zmcontrol status
Host zimbra.server.com
       antispam                Running
       antivirus               Running
       convertd                Running
       ldap                    Running
       logger                  Running
       mailbox                 Stopped
               mysql.server is not running.
       mta                     Running
       snmp                    Running
       spell                   Running
       stats                   Stopped
       zmconfigd               Running
mysql.server status
mysql is running with pid 22851
ps as | grep mysql
S pts/0 0:00 /bin/sh /opt/zimbra/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe --defaults-file=/opt/zimbra/conf/my.cnf --external-locking --log-error=/opt/zimbra/log/mysql_error.log --malloc-lib=/opt/zimbra/tcmalloc/lib/libtcmalloc_minimal.so --ledir=/opt/zimbra/mysql/bin
Sl pts/0 0:02 /opt/zimbra/mysql/bin/mysqld --defaults-file=/opt/zimbra/conf/my.cnf --basedir=/opt/zimbra/mysql --datadir=/opt/zimbra/db/data --plugin-dir=/opt/zimbra/mysql/lib/plugin --external-locking --log-error=/opt/zimbra/log/mysql_error.log --pid-file=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.pid --socket=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.sock --port=7306
/opt/zimbra/bin/mysqladmin status
Can't read dir of '/etc/mysql/conf.d/' (Errcode: 2)

If the conf.d directory is created then the error goes away. You will see similar errors when trying to reset mysql password, or when trying to start the service manually using "mysql.server".

This has only been seen on Ubuntu installs.

Cause

The directory '/etc/mysql/conf.d/' is not required by zcs to be present, all libraries and config files for zimbra are contained within the "/opt/zimbra" folder and the service does not rely on distro's config files.

The reason zimbra binaries go searching for the directory is because of a library conflict. If the below two mysql client libraries are installed, this can result in them overriding the zimbra libraries.

zimbra@zimbra:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep -i mysql
libmysqlclient16                                deinstall
mysql-common                                    deinstall

Resolution

Since "deinstall" means these packages were marked to be removed :

dpkg --purge mysql-common
dpkg --purge libmysqlclient16

Doing so will remove these packages, and hence resolve the conflicting libraries.

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