This has been happening for a while, but now that I have maria setup to start on boot its annoying. Basically when the script is run for startup it just hangs there until you hit enter. Which is annoying since I don't normally keep a keyboard or monitor hooked up to it. I tried playing around with the script, but nothing seems to work for me. Has anyone else encountered this and if so did you find a fix?

Thanks

I thought I saw the same thing in the past, but not now. After rebooting several times, using the default scripts in 14.1 64bit, I see something like the following;
... and then a couple of lines from my rc.local related entries, and then I'm presented with the login prompt.

However, I can semi-duplicate what you mean by manually stopping then restarting mysqld.At this point the cursor is at a blank new line, but not a "prompt". If I hit enter, I'm back at the prompt again.

How did you setup maria to start on boot? I simply did a chmod u+x rc.mysqld (or whatever).

I suspect the output you see is just the delayed "log_notice" from mysqld_safe running in it's background process / constant loop. I don't think any other startup process or script is "pending" you hitting the enter key.
In the past on a headless server, I think I had something like this at the end of my rc.localAlthough obviously cosmetic, this would clear the startup log output, display the little banner, and present a login prompt again.

I just added sleep 6 and clear to rc.local and that does it.