And output of: pgrep mysqld
does it return the same pid as pidof command? Cheers, -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> Knot DNS (https://www.knot-dns.cz/) – a high-performance DNS server Knot Resolver (https://www.knot-resolver.cz/) – secure, privacy-aware, fast DNS(SEC) resolver Vše pro chleba (https://vseprochleba.cz) – Mouky ze mlýna a potřeby pro pečení chleba všeho druhu On Thu, May 4, 2017, at 04:40, Ondřej Surý wrote: > Chris, > > I don't use KDE, so I will need a little of your help. > > Could you do on a running system: > > ps uax | grep $(pidof -c /usr/sbin/mysqld) > > and > > is there a difference between: > > pidof /usr/sbin/mysqld > > and > > pidof -c /usr/sbin/mysqld > > ? > > Cheers, > -- > Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> > Knot DNS (https://www.knot-dns.cz/) – a high-performance DNS server > Knot Resolver (https://www.knot-resolver.cz/) – secure, privacy-aware, > fast DNS(SEC) resolver > Vše pro chleba (https://vseprochleba.cz) – Mouky ze mlýna a potřeby pro > pečení chleba všeho druhu > > On Thu, May 4, 2017, at 03:17, chris wrote: > > Package: mariadb-server-10.1 > > Version: 10.1.22-4 > > Severity: important > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > Upgrade from 1 month old version failed. > > > > Installation says: > > > > There is a MySQL server running, but we failed in our attempts to stop > > it. > > Stop it yourself and try again! > > > > and fails. > > > > When looking at: > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/mariadb-server-10.1.prerm > > one can see: > > invoke-rc.d mysql stop > > pidof -c /usr/sbin/mysqld > > > > Executing those lines myself, I get: > > # invoke-rc.d mysql stop; pidof -c /usr/sbin/mysqld > > 3174 > > > > Similarly: > > # systemctl stop mariadb.service; pidof -c /usr/sbin/mysqld > > 3174 > > > > However I could stop the sever as a plain user: > > $ akonadictl stop > > > > Verify it is stopped: > > # pidof -c /usr/sbin/mysqld > > > > Then the upgrade worked flawlessly: > > # apt-get upgrade > > > > A very verbose description can be found there: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2017/05/msg00000.html > > > > > > Best, > > Chris > > > > > > > > -- System Information: > > Debian Release: 9.0 > > APT prefers unstable > > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') > > Architecture: amd64 > > (x86_64) > > > > Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: > > LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) > > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > > > Versions of packages mariadb-server-10.1 depends on: > > ii adduser 3.115 > > ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.60 > > ii galera-3 25.3.20-1 > > ii gawk 1:4.1.4+dfsg-1 > > ii init-system-helpers 1.48 > > ii iproute2 4.9.0-1 > > ii libaio1 0.3.110-3 > > ii libc6 2.24-10 > > ii libdbi-perl 1.636-1+b1 > > ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.5 > > ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-16 > > ii lsb-base 9.20161125 > > ii lsof 4.89+dfsg-0.1 > > ii mariadb-client-10.1 10.1.22-4 > > ii mariadb-common 10.1.22-4 > > ii mariadb-server-core-10.1 10.1.22-4 > > ii passwd 1:4.4-4 > > ii perl 5.24.1-2 > > ii psmisc 22.21-2.1+b2 > > ii rsync 3.1.2-2 > > ii socat 1.7.3.1-2+b1 > > ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 > > > > Versions of packages mariadb-server-10.1 recommends: > > ii libhtml-template-perl 2.95-2 > > > > Versions of packages mariadb-server-10.1 suggests: > > ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20160123cvs-4 > > pn mariadb-test <none> > > pn netcat-openbsd <none> > > pn tinyca <none> > > > > -- debconf information: > > mariadb-server-10.1/postrm_remove_databases: false > > mariadb-server-10.1/nis_warning: > > mariadb-server-10.1/old_data_directory_saved: > > >
