[debian-mysql] Bug#914188: Bug#914188: mariadb-server: Upgrade faild due to 'unknown variable': 'server_audit_file_path=/path/to/audit.log'

[Marc Lagies]

On 29.12.18 16:23, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> What does 'find /etc/mysql -ls' show for you?
> Maybe the original problem is that you edited the wrong configuration
> file and it was lost on upgrade?
> 
> Due how mysql-common works in Debian, the /etc/mysql/my.cnf is not a
> real file but a symlink to the real config, and most of the config is
> in the /etc/mysql/mariadb.cnf.d/* directory anyway.


At the time of the failed upgrade /etc/mysql/my.cnf was the active 
configuration file and also the only file I edited (not a symlink). In 
/etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d existed an inert configuration file, but without any 
plugin settings.

I changed the configuration and all the configuration files are now located at 
the default/recommended places within the directory tree.


Kind regards & all the best for 2019!