How come I get "mysqld.service failed to load: No such file or directory."

Question

Following this tutorial, I'm getting

# sudo service mysqld start

Failed to start mysqld.service: Unit mysqld.service failed to load: No such file or directory.

Evan Carroll · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-11T22:40:59.843

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The mysql daemon in Ubuntu is packaged as mysql, not mysqld.

sudo service mysql start

That's really all there is to that one.

edited Nov 11 '15 at 22:40

answered Nov 11 '15 at 22:31

Evan Carroll

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Unless it does not work – Richard Haven Jun 23 '16 at 21:17
After a reboot it works for me, strange to speak about reboot in Linux, maybe a PATH problem ? – NicoMinsk Jul 25 '16 at 15:41
Just to make things a bit more confusing, sometimes use mysqld sometimes mysql. Thanks for the tip! – Maris Mols Dec 09 '22 at 14:00

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 23 '22 at 20:45

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WARNING: This solution will destroy any DB data you have. DO NOT use it if you have DB data you intend to keep!

I got stuck with the same issue and I uninstalled and installed again by following the following commands:

edited Mar 23 '22 at 20:45

Thomas Ward

answered Jun 20 '19 at 14:41

Narmatha

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What about the data existing in current mysql? – CS_noob Nov 26 '19 at 14:10
Instead of removing just run this sudo apt-get install -y mysql-server mysql-client – AKKAweb Apr 13 '20 at 20:18
this is actually very dangerous, it will destroy your database. – Evan Carroll Mar 23 '22 at 20:43

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