diff --git a/debian/mariadb-galera-server-5.5.mysql.init b/debian/mariadb-galera-server-5.5.mysql.init
index d604075b9e4..874d099a0c6 100644
--- a/debian/mariadb-galera-server-5.5.mysql.init
+++ b/debian/mariadb-galera-server-5.5.mysql.init
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ set -e
 set -u
 ${DEBIAN_SCRIPT_DEBUG:+ set -v -x}
 
+# Prevent Debian's init scripts from calling systemctl
+_SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_REDIRECT=true
+
 test -x /usr/sbin/mysqld || exit 0
 
 . /lib/lsb/init-functions
diff --git a/support-files/mysql.server.sh b/support-files/mysql.server.sh
index 30d1ecd5f4c..fb9e01ded43 100644
--- a/support-files/mysql.server.sh
+++ b/support-files/mysql.server.sh
@@ -24,6 +24,14 @@
 # Short-Description: start and stop MySQL
 # Description: MySQL is a very fast and reliable SQL database engine.
 ### END INIT INFO
+
+# Prevent OpenSUSE's init scripts from calling systemd, so that
+# both 'bootstrap' and 'start' are handled entirely within this
+# script
+SYSTEMD_NO_WRAP=1
+
+# Prevent Debian's init scripts from calling systemctl
+_SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_REDIRECT=true
  
 # If you install MySQL on some other places than @prefix@, then you
 # have to do one of the following things for this script to work: