mysql service fails to start/hangs up - timeout (Ubuntu, MariaDB)

Question

I set up my first Ubuntu Server with Ubuntu 16.04, nginx, php7.0, MariaDB, nextcloud and external DynDNS using this tutorial here: Install Nextcloud 9 on Ubuntu 16.04

Answer 1

The solution for me was to run the following:

sudo killall mysqld

If you are still experiencing this issue, run the command ps -aux | grep 'mysql'. if anything shows up, just kill it as well.

Finally run:

sudo systemctl restart mysql.service