<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span>I also have this issue but it is with the audit plugin, and it impacts MariaDB upgrades over apt, rather than an install of MariaDB from scratch.<br></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span>I receive this message in the syslog from <span>mariadb-server-10.3.postinst</span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span><span>Installation of system tables failed!</span> ...<br></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span>In /var/log/mysql/error.log, I see this:</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span><span>[ERROR] mysqld: Can't open shared library '/usr/server_audit.so' (errno: 22, cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)</span><div><span>[ERROR] Couldn't load plugins from 'server_audit.so'.</span></div><div><span>[ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: unknown variable 'server_audit=FORCE_PLUS_PERMANENT'</span></div><span>[ERROR] Aborting</span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span>The database server continues to function correctly after the service starts. The audit plugin is functional outside of the postinst script. This issue has happened for about a year or two and I never noticed any issues otherwise. I was concerned about a new patch adding newly required system tables failing, such as with an upgrade from Buster to Bullseye, etc.<br></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span>I am unsure if this is the exact same issue as this big. If not, let me know and I can open a new bug report.<br></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span>On a mostly normal Buster:<br></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span>dpkg -l | grep maria<br></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span>ii libmariadb3:amd64 1:10.4.14+maria~buster amd64 MariaDB database client library</span><div><span>ii mariadb-client-10.3 1:10.3.39-0+deb10u2 amd64 MariaDB database client binaries</span></div><div><span>ii mariadb-client-core-10.3 1:10.3.39-0+deb10u2 amd64 MariaDB database core client binaries</span></div><div><span>ii mariadb-common 1:10.4.14+maria~buster all MariaDB database common files (e.g. /etc/mysql/conf.d/mariadb.cnf)</span></div><div><span>ii mariadb-server 1:10.3.39-0+deb10u2 all MariaDB database server (metapackage depending on the latest version)</span></div><div><span>ii mariadb-server-10.3 1:10.3.39-0+deb10u2 amd64 MariaDB database server binaries</span></div><div><span>ii mariadb-server-core-10.3 1:10.3.39-0+deb10u2 amd64 MariaDB database core server files</span></div><div><span>ii mysql-common 1:10.4.14+maria~buster all MariaDB database common files (e.g. /etc/mysql/my.cnf)</span></div><span></span><br></div>
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