Percona Xtradb Cluster nodes won't start

Question

I setup percona_xtradb_cluster-56 with three nodes in the cluster. To start the first cluster, i use the following command and it starts just fine:

#/etc/init.d/mysql bootstrap-pxc

The other two nodes however fail to start when i start them normally using the command:

#/etc/init.d/mysql start

The error i am getting is "The server quit without updating the PID file". The error log contains this message:

Error in my_thread_global_end(): 1 threads didn't exit 150605 22:10:29 
mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid ended.

The cluster nodes are running all Ubuntu 14.04. When i use percona-xtradb-cluster5.5, the cluster ann all the nodes run just fine as expected. But i need to use version 5.6 because i am also using GTID which is only available in version 5.6 and not supported in earlier versions.

I was following these two percona documentation to setup the cluster: https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtradb-cluster/5.6/installation.html#installation

https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtradb-cluster/5.6/howtos/ubuntu_howto.html

Any insight or suggestions on how to resolve this issue would be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

The problem is related to memory, as "The Georgia" writes. There should be at least 500MB for default setup and bootstrapping. See here http://sysadm.pp.ua/linux/px-cluster.html