Marc, I am not able to reproduce this. Here are my steps: - installation of mariadb-server-10.1_10.1.26-0+deb9u1; - load and activation of the audit plugin: $ cat /etc/mysql/my.cnf | grep -v ^# [mysqld]
plugin_load=server_audit=server_audit.so server_audit_file_path=/var/log/mysql/mariadb_server_audit.log server_audit_logging=ON [client-server] !includedir /etc/mysql/conf.d/ !includedir /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/ - restart mariadb and check that plugin is loaded and activated; - upgrade to mariadb-server-10.1_10.1.37-0+deb9u1; $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade - check that audit plugin is still activated; Can you give me the content of you /etc/mysql/my.cnf file? Is it possible that on your system a previous version of mariadb/mysql was installed (before 10.1.26)? -- Faust