[debian-mysql] Bug#928077: Bug#928077: mariadb-server-10.3: fails to start. init files don't create directory /run/mysqld

[Olaf van der Spek]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 5:27 PM Michael Farmbauer
<deb-bug at baldrian.franken.de> wrote:
> in the latest update the pid and socket files have been moved from
> /var/run/mysqld to /run/mysqld.
>
> The directory /run/mysqld must be created in the init files:
>
> /etc/init.d/mysql
> /var/lib/systemd/system/mariadb*
>
> Those file still create the directory /var/run/mysqld

On my systems /var/run is a symlink to /run, is this not the case on
your systems?

# ls -l /var/run
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jun 19  2017 /var/run -> /run