[debian-mysql] Bug#1151958: Bug#1151958: mariadb breaks mediawiki autopkgtest: Cannot access the database

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hi,

There is already a MR pending since Oct 1st at
https://salsa.debian.org/mediawiki-team/mediawiki/-/merge_requests/6
but waiting to be finalized

On Sun, 25 Oct 2026 at 16:25, Paul Gevers <elbrus at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Source: mariadb, mediawiki
> Control: found -1 mariadb/1:11.8.9+ds-4
> Control: found -1 mediawiki/1:1.43.11+dfsg-1
> Severity: serious
> Tags: sid forky
> User: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: breaks needs-update
>
> Dear maintainer(s),
>
> With a recent upload of mariadb the autopkgtest of mediawiki fails in
> testing when that autopkgtest is run with the binary packages of mariadb
> from unstable. It passes when run with only packages from testing. In
> tabular form:
>
>                         pass            fail
> mariadb                from testing    1:11.8.9+ds-4
> mediawiki              from testing    1:1.43.11+dfsg-1
> all others             from testing    from testing
>
> I copied some of the output at the bottom of this report.
>
> Currently this regression is blocking the migration of mariadb to
> testing [1]. Due to the nature of this issue, I filed this bug report
> against both packages. Can you please investigate the situation and
> reassign the bug to the right package?
>
> More information about this bug and the reason for filing it can be found on
> https://wiki.debian.org/ContinuousIntegration/RegressionEmailInformation
>
> Paul
>
> [1] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=mariadb
>
> https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/m/mediawiki/77031534/log.gz
>
> 865s PHP 8.4.26 is installed.
> 865s ICU 78.3 is installed (supports Unicode 17.0.0).
> 865s Warning: Could not find APCu. Object caching is not enabled.
> 865s Could not find GD library or ImageMagick. Image thumbnailing will
> be disabled.
> 865s Git version control software not found. You can ignore this for
> now. Note Special:Version will not display commit hashes.
> 865s Using server name "http://localhost".
> 865s Using server URL "http://localhost/mediawiki".
> 865s Warning: Your default directory for uploads
> (/usr/share/mediawiki/images/) is not checked for vulnerability to
> arbitrary script execution during the CLI install.
> 865s Warning: Requests for images in your uploads directory should
> answer with the HTTP header X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to protect
> browsers from potentially unsafe files. It is highly recommended to
> configure appropriate response headers on your webserver before enabling
> uploads.
> 865s The environment has been checked. You can install MediaWiki.
> 865s Setting up database
> 865s Cannot access the database: :real_connect(): (HY000/2002): No such
> file or directory. Check the host, username and password and try again.
> If using "localhost" as the database host, try using "127.0.0.1" instead
> (or vice versa).
> 865s ***failed***
> 866s autopkgtest [13:38:51]: test install-mysql
>
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