I was able to recreate with a set physical servers and here are the logs. For the mysqld logs, I found that they go to the syslog so I've extracted these. From mysqld logs, there's this exception: Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: 2015-11-18 06:36:12 75623 [ERROR] WSREP: caught exception in PC, state dump to stderr follows: Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: pc::Proto{uuid=a8c811b1,start_prim=0,npvo=0,ignore_sb=0,ignore_quorum=0,state=1,last_sent_seq=0,checksum=0,instances= Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: #0119ad0acfb,prim=1,un=0,last_seq=3,last_prim=view_id(PRIM,9ad0acfb,3),to_seq=18,weight=1,segment=0 Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: #0119ca2cdf9,prim=1,un=0,last_seq=8,last_prim=view_id(PRIM,9ca2cdf9,1),to_seq=7,weight=1,segment=0 Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: #011a8c811b1,prim=0,un=0,last_seq=4294967295,last_prim=view_id(NON_PRIM,00000000,0),to_seq=-1,weight=1,segment=0 Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: ,state_msgs= Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: #0119ad0acfb,pcmsg{ type=STATE, seq=0, flags= 0, node_map {#0119ad0acfb,prim=1,un=0,last_seq=3,last_prim=view_id(PRIM,9ad0acfb,3),to_seq=18,weight=1,segment=0 Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: }} Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: #0119ca2cdf9,pcmsg{ type=STATE, seq=0, flags= 0, node_map {#0119ca2cdf9,prim=1,un=0,last_seq=8,last_prim=view_id(PRIM,9ca2cdf9,1),to_seq=7,weight=1,segment=0 Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: }} Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: #011a8c811b1,pcmsg{ type=STATE, seq=0, flags= 0, node_map {#011a8c811b1,prim=0,un=0,last_seq=4294967295,last_prim=view_id(NON_PRIM,00000000,0),to_seq=-1,weight=1,segment=0 Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: }} Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: ,current_view=view(view_id(REG,9ad0acfb,4) memb { Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: #0119ad0acfb,0 Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: #0119ca2cdf9,0 Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: #011a8c811b1,0 Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: } joined { Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: #0119ad0acfb,0 Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: #0119ca2cdf9,0 Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: } left { Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: } partitioned { Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: }),pc_view=view((empty)),mtu=2147483647} Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: 2015-11-18 06:36:12 75623 [Note] WSREP: {v=0,t=1,ut=255,o=4,s=0,sr=0,as=-1,f=0,src=a8c811b1,srcvid=view_id(REG,9ad0acfb,4),insvid=view_id(UNKNOWN,00000000,0),ru=00000000,r=[-1,-1],fs=8,nl=( Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: ) Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: } 64 Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: 2015-11-18 06:36:12 75623 [ERROR] WSREP: exception caused by message: {v=0,t=3,ut=255,o=1,s=0,sr=-1,as=0,f=4,src=9ca2cdf9,srcvid=view_id(REG,9ad0acfb,4),insvid=view_id(UNKNOWN,00000000,0),ru=00000000,r=[-1,-1],fs=42,nl=( Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: ) Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: } Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: state after handling message: evs::proto(evs::proto(a8c811b1, OPERATIONAL, view_id(REG,9ad0acfb,4)), OPERATIONAL) { Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: current_view=view(view_id(REG,9ad0acfb,4) memb { Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: #0119ad0acfb,0 Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: #0119ca2cdf9,0 Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: #011a8c811b1,0 Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: } joined { Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: } left { Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: } partitioned { Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: }), Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: input_map=evs::input_map: {aru_seq=0,safe_seq=0,node_index=node: {idx=0,range=[1,0],safe_seq=0} node: {idx=1,range=[1,0],safe_seq=0} node: {idx=2,range=[1,0],safe_seq=0} }, Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: fifo_seq=10, Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: last_sent=0, Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: known: Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: 9ad0acfb at tcp://10.245.0.209:4567 Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: {o=1,s=0,i=1,fs=90,} Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: 9ca2cdf9 at tcp://10.245.0.207:4567 Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: {o=1,s=0,i=1,fs=42,} Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: a8c811b1 at Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: {o=1,s=0,i=1,fs=-1,} Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: }2015-11-18 06:36:12 75623 [ERROR] WSREP: failed to open gcomm backend connection: 131: a8c811b1 last prims not consistent (FATAL) Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: #011 at gcomm/src/pc_proto.cpp:is_prim():815 Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: 2015-11-18 06:36:12 75623 [ERROR] WSREP: gcs/src/gcs_core.cpp:gcs_core_open():208: Failed to open backend connection: -131 (State not recoverable) Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: 2015-11-18 06:36:12 75623 [ERROR] WSREP: gcs/src/gcs.cpp:gcs_open():1379: Failed to open channel 'juju_cluster' at 'gcomm://10.245.0.208,10.245.0.207,10.245.0.209': -131 (State not recoverable) Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: 2015-11-18 06:36:12 75623 [ERROR] WSREP: gcs connect failed: State not recoverable Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: 2015-11-18 06:36:12 75623 [ERROR] WSREP: wsrep::connect(gcomm://10.245.0.208,10.245.0.207,10.245.0.209) failed: 7 Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: 2015-11-18 06:36:12 75623 [ERROR] Aborting Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: Nov 18 06:36:12 prunes mysqld: 2015-11-18 06:36:12 75623 [Note] WSREP: Service disconnected. Nov 18 06:36:13 prunes mysqld: 2015-11-18 06:36:13 75623 [Note] WSREP: Some threads may fail to exit. Nov 18 06:36:13 prunes mysqld: 2015-11-18 06:36:13 75623 [Note] Binlog end Nov 18 06:36:13 prunes mysqld: 2015-11-18 06:36:13 75623 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown complete Nov 18 06:36:13 prunes mysqld: Nov 18 06:36:13 prunes mysqld_safe: mysqld from pid file /var/lib/mysql/prunes.pid ended One thing to note is that there are no 'failure to start' for the node with the failure.