Package: mariadb-server-10.1 Version: 10.1.37-0+deb9u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
it used to be possible to specify a root password pre-installation by setting the debconf value root_password and root_password again like this: debconf-set-selections <<< "mysql-server mysql-server/root_password password secret" debconf-set-selections <<< "mysql-server mysql-server/root_password_again password secret" However, the password is not being set: +-----------+------+----------+-------------+ | Host | User | Password | plugin | +-----------+------+----------+-------------+ | localhost | root | | unix_socket | +-----------+------+----------+-------------+ I have purged all mariadb packages (including mysql database files) before trying this. Using debconf-set-selections <<< "maria-db-10.1 mysql-server/root_password password secret" debconf-set-selections <<< "maria-db-10.1 mysql-server/root_password_again password secret" does not work either (same results as above). Instructions regarding the root_password debconf value are still present in the package control/postinst file, however I have not found out yet why this functionality is broken in this version. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.6 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages mariadb-server-10.1 depends on: ii adduser 3.115 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.61 ii galera-3 25.3.19-2 ii gawk 1:4.1.4+dfsg-1 ii init-system-helpers 1.48 ii iproute2 4.9.0-1+deb9u1 ii libaio1 0.3.110-3 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u3 ii libdbi-perl 1.636-1+b1 ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.6 ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18+deb9u1 ii libsystemd0 232-25+deb9u6 ii lsb-base 9.20161125 ii lsof 4.89+dfsg-0.1 ii mariadb-client-10.1 10.1.37-0+deb9u1 ii mariadb-common 10.1.37-0+deb9u1 ii mariadb-server-core-10.1 10.1.37-0+deb9u1 ii passwd 1:4.4-4.1 ii perl 5.24.1-3+deb9u5 ii psmisc 22.21-2.1+b2 ii rsync 3.1.2-1+deb9u1 ii socat 1.7.3.1-2+deb9u1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 Versions of packages mariadb-server-10.1 recommends: ii libhtml-template-perl 2.95-2 -- debconf information: mariadb-server-10.1/nis_warning: mariadb-server-10.1/old_data_directory_saved: mariadb-server-10.1/postrm_remove_databases: false