Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hello Russel!
Can you reproduce this in a clean installation? Can you provide exact steps how to reproduce this? What does `find /etc/mysql -ls` yield? What it the contents of debian-sys-maint ? Is it for example empty? What does `mysql -e "SELECT Host,User,plugin,authentication_string FROM user;" mysql` yield? I suspect that since debian-sys-maint is broken (and it should not even be needed, since root has unix_socket auth access anyway) the mysqladmin command fails to run and thus restarting server fails as mysqladmin did not gracefully shutdown existing mysqld processes.
