Package: mariadb-server-10.3 Version: 1:10.3.13-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
mariadb-server-10.3 will not configure on my debian testing (buster) system. The system previously used mysql (I do not remember exacty which version but I can find out if necessary). Since that was replaced with mariadb, apt fails to configure mariadb-server. Here is the output from dpkg --configure mariadb-server-10.3 Setting up mariadb-server-10.3 (1:10.3.13-1) ... dpkg: error processing package mariadb-server-10.3 (--configure): installed mariadb-server-10.3 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: mariadb-server-10.3 The last part of the output of DEBIAN_SCRIPT_DEBUG=1 dpkg --configure --debug=2 mariadb-server-10.3 shows: ++ /bin/echo -e 'USE mysql;\n' 'SET sql_log_bin=0;\n' 'ALTER TABLE user CHANGE Password Password char(41) character set latin1 collate latin1_bin DEFAULT '\'''\'' NOT NULL;' + password_column_fix_query='USE mysql; SET sql_log_bin=0; ALTER TABLE user CHANGE Password Password char(41) character set latin1 collate latin1_bin DEFAULT '\'''\'' NOT NULL;' + /usr/sbin/mysqld --bootstrap --user=mysql --disable-log-bin --skip-grant-tables --default-storage-engine=myisam + echo 'USE mysql; SET sql_log_bin=0; ALTER TABLE user CHANGE Password Password char(41) character set latin1 collate latin1_bin DEFAULT '\'''\'' NOT NULL;' + logger -p daemon.err -t mariadb-server-10.3.postinst -i dpkg: error processing package mariadb-server-10.3 (--configure): installed mariadb-server-10.3 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: mariadb-server-10.3 -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_IE.utf8), LANGUAGE=en_GB (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_IE.utf8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages mariadb-server-10.3 depends on: ii adduser 3.118 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.71 ii galera-3 25.3.25-1 ii gawk 1:4.2.1+dfsg-1 ii iproute2 4.20.0-2 ii libc6 2.28-8 ii libdbi-perl 1.642-1+b1 ii libgnutls30 3.6.6-2 ii libpam0g 1.3.1-5 ii libstdc++6 8.3.0-2 ii lsb-base 10.2019031300 ii lsof 4.91+dfsg-1 ii mariadb-client-10.3 1:10.3.13-1 ii mariadb-common 1:10.3.13-1 ii mariadb-server-core-10.3 1:10.3.13-1 ii passwd 1:4.5-1.1 ii perl 5.28.1-5 ii psmisc 23.2-1 ii rsync 3.1.3-6 ii socat 1.7.3.2-2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1 Versions of packages mariadb-server-10.3 recommends: ii libhtml-template-perl 2.97-1 Versions of packages mariadb-server-10.3 suggests: ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20180807cvs-1 ii mailutils [mailx] 1:3.5-3 ii mailx 1:20081101-2 pn mariadb-test <none> ii netcat-openbsd 1.195-2 ii tinyca 0.7.5-6 -- debconf information: mariadb-server-10.3/postrm_remove_databases: false mariadb-server-10.3/old_data_directory_saved: mariadb-server-10.3/nis_warning: