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Hi Andy,
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 10:35:59AM +0000, andy.duffell@??? wrote:
> Background: I let the disk get completely full on my VPS (oops!). Bought
> another 5GB but the system was pretty unresponsive due to lack of disk
> space. Rebooted, thinking to dump some old kernels to free space, had to do
> this in Xen and it took an absolute age to shut down. Booted and resized
> disk successfully, but...
Was there a reason why you couldn't grow the disk before/without
rebooting?
> Status: "MariaDB server is down"
What does MariaDB say in its error log as you try to start it? You
can normally find that at /var/log/mysql/error.log on Debian,
probably the same for Ubuntu.
$ tail -F /var/log/mysql/error.log
then in another window
$ sudo systemctl start mariadb
> Webmin also returns this fault code when prompted to start the DB:
>
> DBI connect failed : Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'
Just means that mariadb isn't running.
Cheers,
Andy
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