Bug#870200: Additional idea

Good evening, in the course of fixing issues with my upgrade I got redis-server running which failed due to the odd and old kernel I (have to) use, configured and installed by the provider of the (virtual) machine. Marc Ballarin, who obviously knows a lot more about that topic an who reported #

Bug#870200: Purged and reinstalled

Good evening, in the meantime I have purged all mariadb packages and reinstalled them. mariadb-server-10.1 did still not install, but with another error. I purged once more and installed version 10.0, which worked fine. For me, this bug can be closed. Harald

Bug#870200: Could start it with --skip-grant-tables

Good evening, the problem persists, but I can start the database with sudo /usr/sbin/mysqld --skip-grant-tables --general-log and afterwards execute mysql_upgrade without it throwing an error. The downside is that it does not change anything. I still cannot install mariadb-server-10.1 without

Bug#870200: mariadb-server-10.1: jessie --> stretch: starting mariadb impossible (Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning /usr/bin/install: Value too large for defined data type)

Package: mariadb-server-10.1 Version: 10.1.23-9+deb9u1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Good evening everyone. I just just upgraded fromJessie to stretch and cannot install/run mariadb at all. *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to