[mythtv-users] Mariadb upgrade issues

[Larry Kennedy]

On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 4:23 AM Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Jun 2023 13:20:21 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >Solved!
> >
> >I just noticed that when I ran apt --fix-broken install, it was
> complaining
> >that the mariadb.cnf was missing.  I simply touch-ed that file and the fix
> >seems to have worked.
>
> Wow, that is a crazy problem.  Apt should just have installed the
> missing file from the package.  Maybe that should be reported as a
> bug?
>
> And how did mariadb.cnf disappear anyway?  Have you had a bad shutdown
> or power failure where you had to run fsck multiple times to clear up
> filesystem corruption?  That can cause files to disappear.
>

I have no idea why this file was missing.  The /etc/mysql/my.conf file is
also empty, but I have config files under /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.  The
database is up and running, so it must not be broken.

Not sure what might have gone wrong to cause this file to disappear.


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