[mythtv-users] Problems with mariadb segfaults in latest ubuntu and maybe other distros

[Jeremy D. Eiden]

On 6/1/20 12:00 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 10:16 AM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com 
> <mailto:pb.mythtv at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     The latest mysql client library causes segfaults when a process using
>     mariadb exits. See bug reports:
>
>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-8.0/+bug/1877504
>     https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=961672
>
>     There does not seem to be any fix coming soon, based on comments
>     in the
>     bug reports. The bug reports imply that mysql should change their
>     package to conform to mariadb. That is not likely to happen.
>
>     If upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04 make sure you are using mysql not
>     mariadb,
>     or else downgrade package libmysqlclient21 to the older version.
>
>
> I'm not sure what the package availability is on Ubuntu, but on Fedora 
> we no longer use the mysql client, but use the mariadb one which 
> provides the same capability:
>
> $ dnf --repoid=rawhide repoquery --provides mariadb-connector-c
> libmariadb.so.3
> libmariadb.so.3()(64bit)
> libmariadb.so.3(libmariadb_3)
> libmariadb.so.3(libmariadb_3)(64bit)
> libmariadb.so.3(libmariadbclient_18)
> libmariadb.so.3(libmariadbclient_18)(64bit)
> libmariadb.so.3(libmysqlclient_18)
> libmariadb.so.3(libmysqlclient_18)(64bit)
> mariadb-connector-c = 3.1.8-1.fc33
> mariadb-connector-c(x86-32) = 3.1.8-1.fc33
> mariadb-connector-c(x86-64) = 3.1.8-1.fc33
> Thanks,
> Richard
>

Opensuse Tumbleweed and 15.1 also use the mariadb one, I've seen no issues.

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