On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 at 16:21, Philippe Delavalade via arch-general < arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Job for mariadb.service failed because the control process exited with > error code. > See "systemctl status mariadb.service" and "journalctl -xeu > mariadb.service" for details. > nov. 08 18:03:15 messier31 mariadbd[524]: 2021-11-08 18:03:15 0 [ERROR] > Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.servers' doesn't exist > nov. 08 18:03:15 messier31 mariadbd[524]: 2021-11-08 18:03:15 0 [ERROR] > Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.db' doesn't > exist > > Looks like the default databases and tables haven't been created yet. Have a look on the MariaDb page https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/MariaDB