[Pkg-cacti-maint] Bug#1031116: autopkgtest for cacti/1.2.23+ds1-2 fails as dbconfig-common attempts to create database before any server is up

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Please see my second message
(https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1031116#10), I
later found out the exact commit that introduced this and why.

On Sat, 11 Feb 2023 at 23:28, Paul Gevers <elbrus at debian.org> wrote:
...
> I'm also seeing this in the (amd64) log (but it's a warning)
> """
> Preparing to unpack .../000-mariadb-server_1%3a10.11.1-4_amd64.deb ...
> adduser: Warning: The home dir /nonexistent you specified can't be
> accessed: No such file or directory
> """

Not related. This is expected for machine accounts that don't have
real home directories.

>  > # systemctl restart mariadb
>  > ERROR:systemctl:the ExecStartPre control process exited with error code
>
> That looks pretty bad and has nothing to do with cacti.

This was actually not the root cause. MariaDB failing to start
happened on s390x only and for other reasons.

Actual root cause that completely breaks cacti autopkgtests is the
changed ordering in apt (check my second message).