今天，啟動MySQL伺服器失敗，如下所示：

[[email protected] ~]# /etc/init.d/mysqld start
Starting mysqld (via systemctl):  Job for mysqld.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status mysqld.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
                                                           [FAILED]

根據提示，分別使用systemctl status mysqld.service和journalctl -xe檢視服務啟動失敗的原因

[[email protected] ~]# systemctl status mysqld.service

?.mysqld.service - SYSV: MySQL database server.
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2016-01-20 18:26:57 CST; 40s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 2979 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Jan 20 18:26:56 spark01 systemd[1]: Starting SYSV: MySQL database server....
Jan 20 18:26:57 spark01 mysqld[2979]: MySQL Daemon failed to start.
Jan 20 18:26:57 spark01 mysqld[2979]: Starting mysqld:  [FAILED]
Jan 20 18:26:57 spark01 systemd[1]: mysqld.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Jan 20 18:26:57 spark01 systemd[1]: Failed to start SYSV: MySQL database server..
Jan 20 18:26:57 spark01 systemd[1]: Unit mysqld.service entered failed state.
Jan 20 18:26:57 spark01 systemd[1]: mysqld.service failed.

[[email protected] ~]# journalctl -xe

-- 
-- Unit session-2.scope has begun starting up.
Jan 20 18:26:48 spark01 sshd[2916]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user spark by (uid=0)
Jan 20 18:26:52 spark01 su[2944]: (to root) spark on pts/1
Jan 20 18:26:52 spark01 su[2944]: pam_unix(su-l:session): session opened for user root by spark(uid=1000)
Jan 20 18:26:56 spark01 polkitd[909]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-process:2974:117137 (system bus name :1.25
Jan 20 18:26:56 spark01 systemd[1]: Starting SYSV: MySQL database server....
-- Subject: Unit mysqld.service has begun start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit mysqld.service has begun starting up.
Jan 20 18:26:57 spark01 mysqld[2979]: MySQL Daemon failed to start.
Jan 20 18:26:57 spark01 mysqld[2979]: Starting mysqld:  [FAILED]
Jan 20 18:26:57 spark01 systemd[1]: mysqld.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Jan 20 18:26:57 spark01 systemd[1]: Failed to start SYSV: MySQL database server..
-- Subject: Unit mysqld.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit mysqld.service has failed.
-- 
-- The result is failed.
Jan 20 18:26:57 spark01 systemd[1]: Unit mysqld.service entered failed state.
Jan 20 18:26:57 spark01 systemd[1]: mysqld.service failed.
Jan 20 18:26:57 spark01 polkitd[909]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:2974:117137 (system bus name :1.

但，可惜的時，這些資訊並不能提供服務啟動失敗的真正原因。

這時候，不妨開啟MySQL的告警日誌，畢竟，只要MySQL服務啟動，告警日誌都會有輸出資訊的，果然

2016-01-20T10:00:19.935771Z 0 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't create/write to file '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid' (Errcode: 2 - No such file or directory)
2016-01-20T10:00:19.935795Z 0 [ERROR] Can't start server: can't create PID file: No such file or directory
160120 18:00:20 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid ended

MySQL服務在啟動的時候，不能建立pid檔案。

在終端看一下該目錄是否存在，果然，不存在。

於是，建立了/var/run/mysqld/目錄，重啟MySQL服務

[[email protected] ~]# mkdir -p /var/run/mysqld/

[[email protected] ~]# /etc/init.d/mysqld start

Starting mysqld (via systemctl):  Job for mysqld.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status mysqld.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
                                                           [FAILED]

依舊報錯，重新檢視告警日誌，有以下輸出

2016-01-20T10:28:37.183387Z 0 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't create/write to file '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid' (Errcode: 13 - Permission denied)
2016-01-20T10:28:37.183431Z 0 [ERROR] Can't start server: can't create PID file: Permission denied
160120 18:28:37 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid ended
160120 18:32:06 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql

原來，/var/run/mysqld/的屬主和屬組還是root，mysql並不能在其中建立檔案，後修改該目錄的屬主和屬組，啟動OK。

[[email protected] ~]# ls -ld /var/run/mysqld/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 Jan 20 18:28 /var/run/mysqld/
[[email protected] ~]# chown mysql.mysql /var/run/mysqld/
[[email protected] ~]# /etc/init.d/mysqld start
Starting mysqld (via systemctl):                           [  OK  ]

總結：

以前在玩Kubernetes的時候，常遇到啟動失敗的情況，根據systemctl的提示，通過systemctl status mysqld.service和journalctl -xe命令檢視服務啟動失敗的原因往往並不如人意，反而給了一種錯誤的暗示，以為這個跟系統有關。其實，通過檢視服務的日誌，往往更能清晰的知道服務啟動失敗的原因。