[debian-mysql] Bug#1032407: Cannot start mariadb-server unless manually mkdir -p /var/lib/mysql

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hi!

On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 at 06:51, MichaIng <micha at dietpi.com> wrote:
>
> The Puppet module requires an update:
> https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Apuppetlabs%2Fpuppetlabs-mysql%20%2Fvar%2Flog&type=code
>
> One option would be to make it create and chown the directory by itself,
> if plain text logs are for some reason needed/wanted.
>
> The probably cleaner option would be if it did not touch the log file
> option at all (same for PID file) to use the package/server defaults,
> which are to log to STDOUT => systemd journal since Bullseye.

Are you doing an update in Puppet for this?

So far we have only one report about this from one user (albeit the
Debian maintainer of an important package) so I don't feel confident
in reverting https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/merge_requests/27
just yet.