# Node is failing to start

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/node-is-failing-to-start/16527>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [July 12, 2022, 4:21pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/node-is-failing-to-start/16527 "2022-07-12T16:21:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![danarashad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@danarashad](https://forums.percona.com/u/danarashad)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2022, 4:21pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/node-is-failing-to-start/16527/1 "2022-07-12T16:21:29Z")

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I am joining a node to the cluster. I am getting an error message.

```auto
2022-07-12T16:19:42.122232Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-000000] [Galera] deque::_M_new_elements_at_back
2022-07-12T16:19:42.122345Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-000000] [Galera] Failed to create a new provider '/usr/lib/galera4/libgalera_smm.so' with options 'gcache.size = 5G; gcache.dir = /db2/cache;socket.ssl_key=/etc/mysql/percona-cert/server-key.pem;
socket.ssl_ca=/etc/mysql/percona-cert/ca.pem;socket.ssl_cert=/etc/mysql/percona-cert/server-cert.pem': Failed to initialize wsrep provider
2022-07-12T16:19:42.122364Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-000000] [WSREP] Failed to load provider
2022-07-12T16:19:42.122388Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-010119] [Server] Aborting

```

Full log below

```auto
Log of wsrep recovery (--wsrep-recover):
 INFO: WSREP: Running position recovery with --log_error='/db1/wsrep_recovery_verbose.WjvdDC' --pid-file='/db1/oceandb401-recover.pid'
 INFO: WSREP: Recovered position 188f1ed8-e5bc-11ec-8650-4643a6f8d9c0:2268033
2022-07-12T16:34:01.178892Z 0 [System] [MY-010116] [Server] /usr/sbin/mysqld (mysqld 8.0.26-16.1) starting as process 2039870
2022-07-12T16:34:01.182261Z 0 [Warning] [MY-010068] [Server] CA certificate /etc/mysql/percona-cert/ca.pem is self signed.
2022-07-12T16:34:01.182303Z 0 [System] [MY-013602] [Server] Channel mysql_main configured to support TLS. Encrypted connections are now supported for this channel.
2022-07-12T16:34:01.182332Z 0 [Note] [MY-000000] [WSREP] New joining cluster node configured to use specified SSL artifacts
2022-07-12T16:34:01.182385Z 0 [Note] [MY-000000] [Galera] Loading provider /usr/lib/galera4/libgalera_smm.so initial position: 188f1ed8-e5bc-11ec-8650-4643a6f8d9c0:2268033
2022-07-12T16:34:01.182447Z 0 [Note] [MY-000000] [Galera] wsrep_load(): loading provider library '/usr/lib/galera4/libgalera_smm.so'
2022-07-12T16:34:01.183006Z 0 [Note] [MY-000000] [Galera] wsrep_load(): Galera 4.7(7ea7225) by Codership Oy <info@codership.com> (modified by Percona <https://percona.com/>) loaded successfully.
2022-07-12T16:34:01.183081Z 0 [Note] [MY-000000] [Galera] CRC-32C: using 64-bit x86 acceleration.
2022-07-12T16:34:01.183589Z 0 [Note] [MY-000000] [Galera] Found saved state: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000:-1, safe_to_bootstrap: 0
2022-07-12T16:34:01.183694Z 0 [Note] [MY-000000] [Galera] GCache DEBUG: opened preamble:
Version: 2
UUID: 188f1ed8-e5bc-11ec-8650-4643a6f8d9c0
Seqno: -1 - -1
Offset: -1
Synced: 1
2022-07-12T16:34:01.183772Z 0 [Note] [MY-000000] [Galera] Recovering GCache ring buffer: version: 2, UUID: 188f1ed8-e5bc-11ec-8650-4643a6f8d9c0, offset: -1
2022-07-12T16:34:01.183877Z 0 [Note] [MY-000000] [Galera] GCache::RingBuffer initial scan... 0.0% ( 0/5368709144 bytes) complete.
2022-07-12T16:34:01.211301Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-000000] [Galera] deque::_M_new_elements_at_back
2022-07-12T16:34:01.211442Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-000000] [Galera] Failed to create a new provider '/usr/lib/galera4/libgalera_smm.so' with options 'gcache.size = 5G; gcache.dir = /db2/cache;socket.ssl_key=/etc/mysql/percona-cert/server-key.pem;
socket.ssl_ca=/etc/mysql/percona-cert/ca.pem;socket.ssl_cert=/etc/mysql/percona-cert/server-cert.pem': Failed to initialize wsrep provider
2022-07-12T16:34:01.211477Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-000000] [WSREP] Failed to load provider
2022-07-12T16:34:01.211505Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-010119] [Server] Aborting
2022-07-12T16:34:01.211748Z 0 [System] [MY-010910] [Server] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown complete (mysqld 8.0.26-16.1) Percona XtraDB Cluster (GPL), Release rel16, Revision b141904, WSREP version 26.4.3.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Coburn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/michael_coburn/32/18_2.png) [@Michael\_Coburn](https://forums.percona.com/u/Michael_Coburn)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2022, 4:55pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/node-is-failing-to-start/16527/2 "2022-07-12T16:55:21Z")

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Hi @danarashad

> [@danarashad](#):
>
> ```auto
> 2022-07-12T16:34:01.211442Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-000000] [Galera] Failed to create a new provider '/usr/lib/galera4/libgalera_smm.so' with options 'gcache.size = 5G; gcache.dir = /db2/cache;socket.ssl_key=/etc/mysql/percona-cert/server-key.pem;
> 
> ```

Try removing the spaces around the `=` sign

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**Author:** ![danarashad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@danarashad](https://forums.percona.com/u/danarashad)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2022, 5:43pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/node-is-failing-to-start/16527/3 "2022-07-13T17:43:14Z")

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I had to remove the `galera.cache` file.