Hi Gordan, and I appreciate your taking the time to help me. Your suggestion to set "innodb_fast_shutdown=0" didn't produce any joy. I will show the new output from the log files to see if that will help...

2021-11-05T09:26:13.146616-07:00 bigbang systemd[1]: Starting MariaDB database server...
2021-11-05T09:26:13.206649-07:00 bigbang mysql-systemd-helper[15781]: Checking MySQL configuration for obsolete options...
2021-11-05T09:26:13.210550-07:00 bigbang mysql-systemd-helper[15781]: Trying to run upgrade of MySQL databases...
2021-11-05T09:26:13.252847-07:00 bigbang mysql-systemd-helper[15781]: Running protected MySQL...
2021-11-05T09:26:13.253624-07:00 bigbang mysql-systemd-helper[15781]: Waiting for MySQL to start
2021-11-05T09:26:13.293453-07:00 bigbang mysql-systemd-helper[15801]: 2021-11-05 9:26:13 0 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld (mysqld 10.5.12-MariaDB) starting as process 15801 ...
2021-11-05T09:27:13.833724-07:00 bigbang mysql-systemd-helper[15781]: MySQL is still dead
2021-11-05T09:27:13.833779-07:00 bigbang mysql-systemd-helper[15781]: MySQL didn't start, can't continue
2021-11-05T09:27:13.834287-07:00 bigbang systemd[1]: mariadb.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
2021-11-05T09:27:13.834361-07:00 bigbang systemd[1]: mariadb.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
2021-11-05T09:27:13.834400-07:00 bigbang systemd[1]: Failed to start MariaDB database server.

bigbang:/var/tmp/mysql-protected.k34sIB # cat log_upgrade_run.err
2021-11-05 10:09:35 0 [Note] InnoDB: Uses event mutexes
2021-11-05 10:09:35 0 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.11
2021-11-05 10:09:35 0 [Note] InnoDB: Number of pools: 1
2021-11-05 10:09:35 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using crc32 + pclmulqdq instructions
2021-11-05 10:09:35 0 [Note] mysqld: O_TMPFILE is not supported on /tmp (disabling future attempts)
2021-11-05 10:09:36 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO
2021-11-05 10:09:36 0 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, total size = 134217728, chunk size = 134217728
2021-11-05 10:09:36 0 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
2021-11-05 10:09:36 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: corrupted TRX_NO 5f737461748e4465
2021-11-05 10:09:36 0 [Note] InnoDB: Retry with innodb_force_recovery=5
2021-11-05 10:09:36 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: Plugin initialization aborted with error Data structure corruption
2021-11-05 10:09:36 0 [Note] InnoDB: Starting shutdown...
2021-11-05 10:09:36 0 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error.
2021-11-05 10:09:36 0 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.
2021-11-05 10:09:36 0 [Note] Plugin 'FEEDBACK' is disabled.
2021-11-05 10:09:36 0 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: unknown variable 'defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf'
2021-11-05 10:09:36 0 [ERROR] Aborting

[client]
port       = 3306
socket     = /run/mysql/mysql.sock
[mysqld]
innodb_fast_shutdown=0
bind-address    = 127.0.0.1
log-error       = /var/log/mysql/mysqld.log
secure_file_priv = /var/lib/mysql-files
datadir = /srv/mysql/mysql_15.3
server-id    = 1
port = 3306
socket = /run/mysql/mysql.sock
[mysqld_multi]
mysqld     = /usr/bin/mysqld_safe
mysqladmin = /usr/bin/mysqladmin
log        = /var/log/mysqld_multi.log
!includedir /etc/my.cnf.d

(there is nothing in /etc/my.cnf.d)

Before you do the upgrade, can you try shutting it down after setting innodb_fast_shutdown=0? That will purge the redo logs completely before shutting down. Then try the new version and see if it starts. innodb_force_recovery is a bit of a last-resort option to try before you have to resort to more advanced methods of data recovery. On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 11:30 AM Karl Levik <karl.levik@gmail.com> wrote:

(Re-sent because I forgot to include the list, sorry.) Hi Marc, That sounds frustrating. 10.4.13 is not the most recent in the 10.4 series, so perhaps it would help to upgrade to 10.4.21 first, and then upgrade from there to 10.5.12? Your error log also suggests a solution: "Retry with innodb_force_recovery=5" - it might be worth trying that as well. Cheers, Karl On Thu, 4 Nov 2021 at 16:45, Marc Chamberlin <marc@marcchamberlin.com> wrote:

Hello - I have ran into a problem that maybe someone else has hit and knows a solution for it. I recently upgraded my OpenSuSE 15.2 x64 version to OpenSuSE 15.3 x64 and installed all additional updates and patches that were suggested for 15.3. Most of the upgrade succeeded, all except Mariadb. Google has not been helpful either. My understanding of Mariadb is that after a new install of a new version it is suppose to automagically update and fix the databases from the older version, when the server is restarted, but I think this is failing. I found the upgrade log file for Mariadb and it appears to be reporting some kind of corruption has occurred. This is preventing the mariadb (mysql) server from even starting, so it is not possible to use queries to find and repair the database. - bigbang:/var/tmp/mysql-protected.lBP2YQ # more log_upgrade_run.err 2021-10-31 12:11:36 0 [Note] InnoDB: !!! innodb_force_recovery is set to 1 !!! 2021-10-31 12:11:36 0 [Note] InnoDB: Uses event mutexes 2021-10-31 12:11:36 0 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.11 2021-10-31 12:11:36 0 [Note] InnoDB: Number of pools: 1 2021-10-31 12:11:36 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using crc32 + pclmulqdq instructions 2021-10-31 12:11:36 0 [Note] mysqld: O_TMPFILE is not supported on /tmp (disabling future attempts) 2021-10-31 12:11:36 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO 2021-10-31 12:11:36 0 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, total size = 134217728, chunk size = 134217728 2021-10-31 12:11:36 0 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool 2021-10-31 12:11:36 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: corrupted TRX_NO 5f737461748dea16 2021-10-31 12:11:36 0 [Note] InnoDB: Retry with innodb_force_recovery=5 2021-10-31 12:11:36 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: Plugin initialization aborted with error Data structure corruption 2021-10-31 12:11:36 0 [Note] InnoDB: Starting shutdown... 2021-10-31 12:11:36 0 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error. 2021-10-31 12:11:36 0 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed. 2021-10-31 12:11:36 0 [Note] Plugin 'FEEDBACK' is disabled. 2021-10-31 12:11:36 0 [ERROR] Unknown/unsupported storage engine: InnoDB 2021-10-31 12:11:36 0 [ERROR] Aborting On a hunch, I decided to install the OpenSuSE OSS repository for 15.2 and this allowed me to drop back and install version 10.4.13-lp152.1.1 of the mariadb server, client, errormessages, and tools packages. (OpenSuSE 15.3 wants to install version 10.5.12-3.9.1 of these mariadb packages.) And lo and behold the previous 10.4.13-lp152.1.1 package works fine! So what gives? Any idea why the upgraded version of mariadb packages are failing to upgrade and support my databases? As I said I have tried Googling for an answer but no joy finding one. A lot of the proposed solutions, Google found, assume the mariadb server is up and running (hump!) so the example solutions given, use mysql queries and commands to fix corrupt databases and tables. I should also point out that AFAIK most, if not all of my database structures are using InnoDB and not the older MYISAM structures (although the mysql database itself appears to have both). I did make a mariadb backup of all the databases but without the ability to start the mariadb server I don't know how to make use of this backup file to reconstruct all the databases and their tables etc. Thanks in advance for any and all advice on how to upgrade my mariadb server. Marc Chamberlin -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- _ _ . . . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ _ . . . . _ . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ . . . . _ _ . _ . . _ . _ _ _ _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . Computers: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the user Marc. His mission: to explore strange new hardware. To seek out new software and new applications. To boldly go where no Marc has gone before! (This email is digitally signed. My public key for sending encrypted email to me can be found at - https://keys.openpgp.org/search?q=marc@domesweetdome.us.com or just ask me for it and I will send it to you as an attachment. If you don't understand, no worries, just ignore it and/or ask me to explain it further.) _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss Post to : maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

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