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When I enter "brew services start mariadb" on the command line I receive the following error -

Bootstrap failed: 5: Input/output error Try re-running the command as root for richer errors. Error: Failure while executing; /bin/launchctl bootstrap gui/501 /Users/jordanjohnston/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mariadb.plist exited with 5.

I've seen folks having the same error and have tried entering -

"launchctl unload -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mariadb.plist"

followed by -

"launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mariadb.plist"

which does nothing for me, still receiving the same error. I have also entered "brew restart mariadb" which does not work either. I have also uninstalled and reinstalled mariadb which did not work. Thank you in advance for any help!

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  • If you look at the contents of homebrew.mxcl.mariadb.plist, do all the file/paths exist? Is there a mariadb error log somewhere that has information related to the startup attempt? Commented Apr 29, 2022 at 5:26
  • How do I view the contents of homebrew.mxcl.mariadb.plist? Commented May 3, 2022 at 14:34
  • When I access the LaunchAgents folder there isn't any content. Commented May 3, 2022 at 18:41

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Also tried the same as you described with no luck. Finally ended up reinstalling Homebrew:

  1. Make any pending updates for XCode. However, it might ask to also update the developer tools later on in step 4
  2. Remove Homebrew. Make sure to have a backup of anything you want to save. For me, it was MariaDB and PostgreSQL databases. I also kept track of any important package I wanted to reinstall later:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/uninstall.sh)"
  1. Remove any other pending directory as Homebrew suggests:
sudo rm -r /opt/homebrew
  1. Reinstall Homebrew:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
  1. Install MariaDB:
brew install mariadb
  1. Start MariaDB:
brew services start mariadb
  1. Check that is all good:
brew services list

You should see something like this:

Services

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