Hi Otto, I can not reproduce this. Upgrade from: - 10.1.23-9+deb9u1 to 10.1.24-6 > OK - 10.1.23-9+deb9u1 to 10.1.34-1 > OK
This was added to my sources.list: deb [check-valid-until=no] http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20170624T094211Z/ buster main non-free contrib deb [check-valid-until=no] http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20171009T041837Z/ buster main non-free contrib $ apt-cache policy mariadb-server-10.1 mariadb-server-10.1: Installed: 1:10.1.34-1 Candidate: 1:10.1.34-1 Version table: *** 1:10.1.34-1 500 500 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 10.1.24-6 500 500 http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20170826T093147Z buster/main amd64 Packages 10.1.23-9+deb9u1 500 500 http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20170624T094211Z buster/main amd64 Packages Some questions that comes to my head: - what was the content of the DB (size, number of tables)? - does this append with an empty DB? - in the case that the DB is huge, could it be related to this? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=865534#10 > After that the retry of the postinst worked but took a while and > there wasn't any progress indicator and so some people might get > the false impression that the postinst hangs: Faustin