Installing Percona 5.6 on Google Compute Engine (Debian)

Question

I've been trying to install percona server on a fresh Google Compute Engine instance.

I haven't installed MySQL server previously. I followed these instructions, and when I run:

apt-get install percona-server-server-5.6 percona-server-client-5.6

I get the following output:

Setting up percona-server-common-5.6 (5.6.15-rel63.0-519.wheezy) ...
Setting up percona-server-client-5.6 (5.6.15-rel63.0-519.wheezy) ...
Setting up percona-server-server-5.6 (5.6.15-rel63.0-519.wheezy) ...
[ ok ] Stopping MySQL (Percona Server): mysqld.
2014-01-22 04:54:28 0 [Warning] TIMESTAMP with implicit DEFAULT value is deprecated.     Please use --explicit_defaults_for_timestamp server option (see documentation for more details).
2014-01-22 04:54:28 21278 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
2014-01-22 04:54:28 21278 [Note] InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
2014-01-22 04:54:28 21278 [Note] InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins
2014-01-22 04:54:28 21278 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
2014-01-22 04:54:28 21278 [Note] InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO
2014-01-22 04:54:28 21278 [Note] InnoDB: Using CPU crc32 instructions
2014-01-22 04:54:28 21278 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
2014-01-22 04:54:28 21278 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
2014-01-22 04:54:28 21278 [Note] InnoDB: Highest supported file format is Barracuda.
2014-01-22 04:54:29 21278 [Note] InnoDB: 128 rollback segment(s) are active.
2014-01-22 04:54:29 21278 [Note] InnoDB: Waiting for purge to start
2014-01-22 04:54:29 21278 [Note] InnoDB:  Percona XtraDB (http://www.percona.com) 5.6.15-    rel63.0 started; log sequence number 1625987
2014-01-22 04:54:29 21278 [Note] RSA private key file not found:     /var/lib/mysql//private_key.pem. Some authentication plugins will not work.
2014-01-22 04:54:29 21278 [Note] RSA public key file not found: /var/lib/mysql//public_key.pem. Some authentication plugins will not work.
2014-01-22 04:54:29 21278 [Note] Binlog end
2014-01-22 04:54:29 21278 [Note] InnoDB: FTS optimize thread exiting.
2014-01-22 04:54:29 21278 [Note] InnoDB: Starting shutdown...
2014-01-22 04:54:30 21278 [Note] InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 1625997


 * Percona Server is distributed with several useful UDF (User Defined Function) from Percona Toolkit.
 * Run the following commands to create these functions:

    mysql -e "CREATE FUNCTION fnv1a_64 RETURNS INTEGER SONAME 'libfnv1a_udf.so'"
    mysql -e "CREATE FUNCTION fnv_64 RETURNS INTEGER SONAME 'libfnv_udf.so'"
    mysql -e "CREATE FUNCTION murmur_hash RETURNS INTEGER SONAME 'libmurmur_udf.so'"

 * See http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.5/management/udf_percona_toolkit.html for more details


[FAIL] Starting MySQL (Percona Server) database server: mysqld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.

What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

It seems that Percona Server 5.6 requires more RAM than the 0.60 GB available in the Google Compute Engine 'f1-micro' machine type. Use a larger machine type when creating your instance.