Followup-For: Bug #841583 Control: block -1 with 851131 The --force problem is specific to mysql, it does not happen with mariadb. But it fails differently on mariadb:
[...] 2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld (mysqld 10.1.20-MariaDB-3) starting as process 3768 ... 2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] InnoDB: Using mutexes to ref count buffer pool pages 2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled 2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins 2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] InnoDB: GCC builtin __atomic_thread_fence() is used for memory barrier 2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.8 2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO 2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] InnoDB: Using SSE crc32 instructions 2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M 2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool 2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] InnoDB: Highest supported file format is Barracuda. 2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] InnoDB: 128 rollback segment(s) are active. 2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] InnoDB: Waiting for purge to start 2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] InnoDB: Percona XtraDB (http://www.percona.com) 5.6.34-79.1 started; log sequence number 1622838 2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] Plugin 'FEEDBACK' is disabled. 2017-01-18 13:52:53 140101342430976 [Note] InnoDB: Dumping buffer pool(s) not yet started 2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections. Version: '10.1.20-MariaDB-3' socket: '/tmp/tmp.mXSW0s03Pw/mysql.sock' port: 0 Debian unstable /usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'' ERROR 1698 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' debian/rules:19: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_install' failed which seems to be another instance of #851131 Andreas
