VMWare giving errors on image and Mariadb not loading

Hi guys. I am setting up a server to test LibreNMS. Originally I wanted to use a pre-prepared image, but it doesn’t matter which Centos or Ubuntu OVA image I choose I get an error message from VMWare (The provided manifest file is invalid: Invalid OVF checksum algorithm: SHA1). I have tried to run a software solution provided by VMWare to fix the manifest (see: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2151537), and once that has been fixed the process starts but then runs into an error (Issues detected with selected template. Details: - -1:-1:VALUE_ILLEGAL: No supported hardware versions among [virtualbox-2.2]; supported: [vmx-04, vmx-07, vmx-08, vmx-09, vmx-10, vmx-11, vmx-12, vmx-13, vmx-14, vmx-15].).

Having tried this I decided to manually set up a server using the instructions provided at https://docs.librenms.org/Installation/Installation-CentOS-7-Apache/. The server itself is up and running, but I can’t seem to get MariaDB to load properly.

Just FYI. That image was not made for VMware esxi it’s only for virtual box.

Yupp… However VMWare allows you to import VirtualBox images, at least in theory :wink:
That still doesn’t fix my mariadb issue… which is my big problem now.

You haven’t provided any information other than just saying can’t Mariadb start. Please provide more information on the issue what have you tried?

Also run ./validate.php

When starting mariadb I get the error:
Job for mariadb.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See “systemctl status mariadb.service” and “journalctl -xe” for details.

running systemctl status on the service I get:
jan 09 14:56:31 localhost.localdomain mariadb-prepare-db-dir[24858]: Please check all of the above before submitting a bug report
jan 09 14:56:31 localhost.localdomain mariadb-prepare-db-dir[24858]: at http://mariadb.org/jira
jan 09 14:56:31 localhost.localdomain mariadb-prepare-db-dir[24858]: Initialization of MariaDB database failed.
jan 09 14:56:31 localhost.localdomain mariadb-prepare-db-dir[24858]: Perhaps @sysconfdir@/my.cnf is misconfigured or there is some problem …ysql.
jan 09 14:56:31 localhost.localdomain mariadb-prepare-db-dir[24858]: Initialization of MariaDB database was not finished successfully.
jan 09 14:56:31 localhost.localdomain mariadb-prepare-db-dir[24858]: Files created so far will be removed.
jan 09 14:56:31 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: mariadb.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
jan 09 14:56:31 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start MariaDB database server.
jan 09 14:56:31 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit mariadb.service entered failed state.
jan 09 14:56:31 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: mariadb.service failed.

I originally assumed that this would be a permissions related problem, but It seems that Mariadb is missing files and isn’t installing correctly and, having removed and reinstalled mariadb I am currently stuck…