https://quicktasks.ismael.casimpan.com/tags/pid/Recent content in pid on IT QuicktasksHugo -- gohugo.ioCopyright © 2018–2022, Ismael Casimpan Jr.; All Rights ReservedWed, 19 Feb 2020 23:11:25 +0800https://quicktasks.ismael.casimpan.com/post/cannot-create-pid-file/Wed, 19 Feb 2020 23:11:25 +0800https://quicktasks.ismael.casimpan.com/post/cannot-create-pid-file/ 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 /var/run/mariadb 2sudo chown mysql.mysql /var/run/mariadb Then afterwards, starting the mariadb service went fine. Some possible solutions in case my solution doesn't work https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15408643/cant-connect-to-mysql-server-cant-create-write-the-pid-file