On a pretty much fresh debian 9 install, the service fails to start. However when manually starting the daemon it works.
systemctl status mariadb.service
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● mariadb.service - MariaDB database server
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Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
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Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/mariadb.service.d
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└─migrated-from-my.cnf-settings.conf
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Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2017-08-29 21:37:15 CEST; 4min 6s ago
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Process: 5622 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/install -m 755 -o mysql -g root -d /var/run/mysqld (code=exited, status=226/NAMESPACE)
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Aug 29 21:37:15 h2721614.stratoserver.net mysqld[5622]: mariadb.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning /usr/bin/install: Value too large for defined data type
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While googeling for this problem I found this bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=870200
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MDEV-15502
debian: systemd, with tmpfiles install not required
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Okay update; Now I'm back on Debian 8 and MariaDB 10.2 (from the MariaDB repository) starts just fine. So I suppose the problem was caused by me using the wrong kernel for Debian 9.