Hello,
I spent several days to find the answer on the question “Why a failed mysql can not be stopped on CentOS?”.
It seems that start-post and stop-post is the main problems here. If you run stop-post (which by default Percona XtraDB Cluster does) and you have some problems then you won’t be able to stop it. The same things with start-post.
If you will use
systemctl stop mysql
when you are in the next states: activating or deactivating then it won’t work. You can try to kill all the mysql processes with kill -9 but it want work because mysqld_safe will restart them. So, you won’t be able to stop your mysql at all.
Sincerely,
Alexandr