[debian-mysql] Bug#926312: MariaDB couldn't start after fresh install

[Conrad Sachweh]

Package: mariadb-server-10.1
Version: 10.1.38-0+deb9u1
Followup-For: Bug #926312

Dear Maintainer,

I purged all mariadb files from my server (also /etc/mysql) and installed mariadb-server.
The installation fails at the configure step of mysql-server and the database is not initialized.

I created the directory /etc/mysql/conf.d (because included in the my.cnf) and reissued the installation and now everything works as expected.
Therefore this bug does only occure on fresh installations, when upgrading from older versions this directory is most likely already existent.

Best regards
Conrad Sachweh


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.9
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages mariadb-server-10.1 depends on:
ii  adduser                   3.115
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]     1.5.61
ii  galera-3                  25.3.19-2
ii  gawk                      1:4.1.4+dfsg-1
ii  init-system-helpers       1.48
ii  iproute2                  4.9.0-1+deb9u1
ii  libaio1                   0.3.110-3
ii  libc6                     2.24-11+deb9u4
ii  libdbi-perl               1.636-1+b1
ii  libpam0g                  1.1.8-3.6
ii  libstdc++6                6.3.0-18+deb9u1
ii  libsystemd0               232-25+deb9u11
ii  lsb-base                  9.20161125
ii  lsof                      4.89+dfsg-0.1
ii  mariadb-client-10.1       10.1.38-0+deb9u1
ii  mariadb-common            10.1.38-0+deb9u1
ii  mariadb-server-core-10.1  10.1.38-0+deb9u1
ii  passwd                    1:4.4-4.1
ii  perl                      5.24.1-3+deb9u5
ii  psmisc                    22.21-2.1+b2
ii  rsync                     3.1.2-1+deb9u2
ii  socat                     1.7.3.1-2+deb9u1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages mariadb-server-10.1 recommends:
ii  libhtml-template-perl  2.95-2

Versions of packages mariadb-server-10.1 suggests:
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]  8.1.2-0.20160123cvs-4
pn  mariadb-test       <none>
pn  netcat-openbsd     <none>
pn  tinyca             <none>

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