After a good deal of troubleshooting I have managed to get Plasma running however MySQL will still not start
systemctl status mysql.service â mysql.service - MySQL Community Server Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mysql.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2016-05-26 15:43:35 CDT; 36s ago Process: 18735 ExecStartPost=/usr/share/mysql/mysql-systemd-start post (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 18734 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/mysqld (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Process: 18946 ExecStartPre=/usr/share/mysql/mysql-systemd-start pre (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 18734 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) May 26 15:43:34 Stark.newbierpg.com systemd[1]: Failed to start MySQL Community Server. May 26 15:43:34 Stark.newbierpg.com systemd[1]: mysql.service: Unit entered failed state. May 26 15:43:34 Stark.newbierpg.com systemd[1]: mysql.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. May 26 15:43:35 Stark.newbierpg.com systemd[1]: mysql.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart. May 26 15:43:35 Stark.newbierpg.com systemd[1]: Stopped MySQL Community Server. May 26 15:43:35 Stark.newbierpg.com systemd[1]: mysql.service: Start request repeated too quickly. May 26 15:43:35 Stark.newbierpg.com systemd[1]: Failed to start MySQL Community Server. root@Stark:/etc# service mysql start Job for mysql.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status mysql.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. root@Stark:/etc# systemctl status mysql.service â mysql.service - MySQL Community Server Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mysql.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: activating (start-post) (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2016-05-26 15:47:30 CDT; 3s ago Process: 20207 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/mysqld (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Process: 20205 ExecStartPre=/usr/share/mysql/mysql-systemd-start pre (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 20207 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE); : 20208 (mysql-systemd-s) CGroup: /system.slice/mysql.service ââcontrol ââ20208 /bin/bash /usr/share/mysql/mysql-systemd-start post ââ20245 sleep 1 May 26 15:47:30 Stark.newbierpg.com systemd[1]: Starting MySQL Community Server... May 26 15:47:33 Stark.newbierpg.com systemd[1]: mysql.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE