Setting up mariadb-server-10.1 (10.1.22-3) ...
Job for mariadb.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status mariadb.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
● mariadb.service - MariaDB database server
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2017-04-28 08:48:12 EDT; 5ms ago
  Process: 5028 ExecStartPost=/etc/mysql/debian-start (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
  Process: 5000 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/mysqld $MYSQLD_OPTS $_WSREP_NEW_CLUSTER $_WSREP_START_POSITION (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 4989 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c [ ! -e /usr/bin/galera_recovery ] && VAR= ||   VAR=`/usr/bin/galera_recovery`; [ $? -eq 0 ]   && systemctl set-environment _WSREP_START_POSITION=$VAR || exit 1 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 4985 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c systemctl unset-environment _WSREP_START_POSITION (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 4981 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/install -m 755 -o mysql -g root -d /var/run/mysqld (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 5000 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Status: "MariaDB server is down"

Apr 28 08:48:10 mhicks-lappy mysqld[5000]: 2017-04-28  8:48:10 140355672746752 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Normal shutdown
Apr 28 08:48:10 mhicks-lappy mysqld[5000]: 2017-04-28  8:48:10 140355672746752 [Note] Event Scheduler: Purging the queue. 0 events
Apr 28 08:48:10 mhicks-lappy mysqld[5000]: 2017-04-28  8:48:10 140354951014144 [Note] InnoDB: FTS optimize thread exiting.
Apr 28 08:48:10 mhicks-lappy mysqld[5000]: 2017-04-28  8:48:10 140355672746752 [Note] InnoDB: Starting shutdown...
Apr 28 08:48:11 mhicks-lappy mysqld[5000]: 2017-04-28  8:48:11 140355672746752 [Note] InnoDB: Waiting for page_cleaner to finish flushi…uffer pool
Apr 28 08:48:12 mhicks-lappy mysqld[5000]: 2017-04-28  8:48:12 140355672746752 [Note] InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 1616965
Apr 28 08:48:12 mhicks-lappy mysqld[5000]: 2017-04-28  8:48:12 140355672746752 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown complete
Apr 28 08:48:12 mhicks-lappy systemd[1]: Failed to start MariaDB database server.
Apr 28 08:48:12 mhicks-lappy systemd[1]: mariadb.service: Unit entered failed state.
Apr 28 08:48:12 mhicks-lappy systemd[1]: mariadb.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
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dpkg: error processing package mariadb-server-10.1 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mariadb-server:
 mariadb-server depends on mariadb-server-10.1 (>= 10.1.22-3); however:
  Package mariadb-server-10.1 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package mariadb-server (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-9ubuntu2) ...
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                          Errors were encountered while processing:
 mariadb-server-10.1
 mariadb-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)