I will definitely run the mysql upgrade first. I’m assuming i should do the mysql upgrade after I update the package lists with the beowulf lists.
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 22, 2021, at 5:00 PM, Hector Gonzalez Jaime via Dng > <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: > > >> On 2/22/21 3:30 PM, Antony Stone wrote: >>> On Monday 22 February 2021 at 22:26:17, Hector Gonzalez Jaime via Dng wrote: >>> >>> I've seen your original problem frequently, mysql and mariadb both are >>> turned off during upgrades, and then apt-get goes on to install other >>> packages, which might require a database to be running and have no >>> control over this. A workaround is, whenever you have mysql (or >>> mariadb) present, update it first and alone, like this: >>> >>> apt-get update >>> apt-get install default-mysql-server # this command depends on your >>> version, just reinstall mysql's server first. >>> apt-get upgrade >>> apt-get dist-upgrade >>> >>> This way mysql gets updated first, and will be running for the rest of >>> your system. >> I like that - it sounds like an excellent tip (hard to see how it might be >> included in an automated update process, but that would of course be even >> better). >> >> Have you ever mentioned this to the Debian project, to see whether they >> consider this either to be a bug in the upgrade process, or at least a >> workaround worth documenting for people doing the upgrade? > I had only seen this with external packages, so, no, I've never mentioned it. > I think if packages depend on a database of any kind to be updated, they > should wait for it to be done before they run their scripts, but then again, > the database might not even be configured to run in the same system. >> >> Antony. >> > -- > Hector Gonzalez > ca...@genac.org > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
