Hi folks, I'm reasonably experienced with MySQL and MMM for cluster management but now I am working on a project to replace this with a MariaDB Galera cluster. Basic system info: [jg4461@db3 ~]$ uname -a Linux db3.resnet.bris.ac.uk 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 25 19:59:55 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [jg4461@db3 ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 6.5 (Final) [jg4461@db3 ~]$ mysql -V mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 5.5.36-MariaDB, for Linux (x86_64) using readline 5.1 I've set up a Galera prototype with two nodes and I got the clustering working. Then I decided to add a load of config options from my old MySQL install to the MariaDB install, and now it fails to start up, but doesn't give an obvious error message. The options were mostly to do with InnoDB buffers etc. This is the output in the log file /var/lib/mysql/db3.resnet.bris.ac.uk.err, the init script hangs for ages after this without giving any further output. 140331 15:07:49 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql 140331 15:07:49 mysqld_safe WSREP: Running position recovery with --log_error='/var/lib/mysql/wsrep_recovery.mlbT89' --pid-file='/var/lib/mysql/db3.resnet.bris.ac.uk-recover.pid' 140331 15:07:51 mysqld_safe WSREP: Failed to recover position: '140331 15:07:49 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled 140331 15:07:49 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins 140331 15:07:49 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3 140331 15:07:49 InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO 140331 15:07:49 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 1.5G 140331 15:07:49 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool 140331 15:07:49 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda. InnoDB: The log sequence number in ibdata files does not match InnoDB: the log sequence number in the ib_logfiles! 140331 15:07:49 InnoDB: Database was not shut down normally! InnoDB: Starting crash recovery. InnoDB: Reading tablespace information from the .ibd files... InnoDB: Restoring possible half-written data pages from the doublewrite InnoDB: buffer... 140331 15:07:49 InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start 140331 15:07:50 Percona XtraDB (http://www.percona.com) 5.5.36-MariaDB-33.0 started; log sequence number 1607692 140331 15:07:50 [Note] Plugin 'FEEDBACK' is disabled.' My MariaDB config file is attached. Please could someone point me in the right direction of where to go with debugging this. I can't find any other error message so I'm struggling to track down why the server can't start. Any advice gratefully accepted! Thanks, Jonathan