diff --git a/slurm.changes b/slurm.changes
index 68b6b18..87a7d09 100644
--- a/slurm.changes
+++ b/slurm.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Jan 23 17:44:29 UTC 2020 - Christian Goll <cgoll@suse.com>
+
+- start slurmdbd after mariabd (bsc#1161716)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jan 13 15:41:48 UTC 2020 - Egbert Eich <eich@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/slurm.spec b/slurm.spec
index 2f141d1..14c8edb 100644
--- a/slurm.spec
+++ b/slurm.spec
@@ -610,6 +610,7 @@ sed -i -e "s@PIDFile=.*@PIDFile=%{_localstatedir}/run/slurm/slurmctld.pid@" \
 sed -i -e "s@PIDFile=.*@PIDFile=%{_localstatedir}/run/slurm/slurmd.pid@" \
  %{buildroot}/%{_unitdir}/slurmd.service
 sed -i -e "s@PIDFile=.*@PIDFile=%{_localstatedir}/run/slurm/slurmdbd.pid@" \
+       -e 's@After=\(.*\)@After=\1 mariadb.service@' \
  %{buildroot}/%{_unitdir}/slurmdbd.service
 %endif