# Unable to bootstrap Percona XtraDB cluster

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**Created:** [September 23, 2025, 11:23am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/unable-to-bootstrap-percona-xtradb-cluster/39444 "2025-09-23T11:23:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Krishnareddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@Krishnareddy](https://forums.percona.com/u/Krishnareddy)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 11:23am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/unable-to-bootstrap-percona-xtradb-cluster/39444/1 "2025-09-23T11:23:02Z")

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Hi,

I have configured below details in my.cnf of first node, But while bootstrap It’s not coming up.

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**Author:** ![Krishnareddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@Krishnareddy](https://forums.percona.com/u/Krishnareddy)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 11:24am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/unable-to-bootstrap-percona-xtradb-cluster/39444/2 "2025-09-23T11:24:48Z")

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[root@percona-xtradb1 mysql]# cat /etc/my.cnf

# Template my.cnf for PXC

# Edit to your requirements.

[client]  
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

[mysqld]  
server-id=2  
datadir=/var/lib/mysql  
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock  
log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log  
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid

# Binary log expiration period is 604800 seconds, which equals 7 days

binlog\_expire\_logs\_seconds=604800

######## wsrep ###############

# Path to Galera library

wsrep\_provider=/usr/lib64/galera4/libgalera\_smm.so

# Cluster connection URL contains IPs of nodes

#If no IP is found, this implies that a new cluster needs to be created,  
#in order to do that you need to bootstrap this node  
wsrep\_cluster\_address=gcomm://172.16.12.222,172.16.12.223,172.16.12.224

# In order for Galera to work correctly binlog format should be ROW

binlog\_format=ROW

# Slave thread to use

wsrep\_slave\_threads=8

wsrep\_log\_conflicts

# This changes how InnoDB autoincrement locks are managed and is a requirement for Galera

innodb\_autoinc\_lock\_mode=2

# Node IP address

wsrep\_node\_address=percona-xtradb1

# Cluster name

wsrep\_cluster\_name=pxc-cluster

#If wsrep\_node\_name is not specified, then system hostname will be used  
wsrep\_node\_name=pxc2

#pxc\_strict\_mode allowed values: DISABLED,PERMISSIVE,ENFORCING,MASTER  
pxc\_strict\_mode=ENFORCING

# SST method

wsrep\_sst\_method=xtrabackup-v2

#Enable automatic configuration of SSL encryption  
pxc-encrypt-cluster-traffic=ON  
ssl-key=/home/adminuser/server-key.pem  
ssl-ca=/home/adminuser/ca.pem  
ssl-cert=/home/adminuser/server-cert.pem

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**Author:** ![Krishnareddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@Krishnareddy](https://forums.percona.com/u/Krishnareddy)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 11:25am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/unable-to-bootstrap-percona-xtradb-cluster/39444/3 "2025-09-23T11:25:32Z")

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[root@percona-xtradb1 mysql]# systemctl start mysql@bootstrap.service  
Job for mysql@bootstrap.service failed because the control process exited with error code.  
See “systemctl status mysql@bootstrap.service” and “journalctl -xeu mysql@bootstrap.service” for details.