I am trying to setup these values:

#skip-bdb
#skip-locking
#skip-innodb

When I add them to /etc/mysql/my.cnf and even if I turn ON of of, them after I do the service restart mysql fails to start, and no error message printed.

sudo service mysql restart
[ ok ] Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld.
[FAIL] Starting MySQL database server: mysqld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . failed!

Previously I made sure that I have no InnoDB tables, and all files of that type were removed.

I tried looking for error files but I couldn't locate it:

• /var/log/mysql.err is a 0 byte file
• /var/log/mysql folder has no files

rsyslog was changed in past with inetutils-syslogd, and this might have changed the log files, and it could be the reason why I don't see any error logs, and I am stuck how to look or go forward.