MariaDB seems to have this issue and can't start as shown in /var/log/mariadb/mariadb.log 12020-02-19 15:18:49 0 [ERROR] mysqld: Can't create/write to file '/var/run/mariadb/mariadb.pid' (Errcode: 2 "No such file or directory") I was able to fix one instance of this issue by doing: 1sudo mkdir …