[mythtv-users] About updating from Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04

[Will Dormann]

On 5/5/26 1:30 AM, Bill Meek wrote:
> Thanks. The password should have been the 'normal' sudo password, not the MythTV one.
> But the result will be the same.

My system is quite long in the tooth (23 years old), and it didn't even 
start on the Ubuntu platform.  So I wouldn't be surprised at all if my 
system isn't exactly as packagers intended.



> Does this return anything:
> 
>      sudo zgrep -i native /var/log/mysql/error.log* # Or, just plain grep if you don't have zgrep
> 
> There have been some changes to the packaging files and I'm looking at
> why the depracated mysql_native_password is working.


2026-05-05T12:11:30.574804Z 9 [Warning] [MY-013360] [Server] Plugin 
mysql_native_password reported: ''mysql_native_password' is deprecated 
and will be removed in a future release. Please use 
caching_sha2_password instead'

As mentioned in my OP, I enabled native password because that's what my 
system expected.



-WD