> I did already attempt the dpkg-reconfigure, but that's not useful (You can select the password only when creating a new datadir with empty config, and thus a dpkg-reconfigure does not suffice).
I thought this is supposed to work, but perhaps I'm mistaken. > ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'a'; I think you need to switch authentication back to password if you're doing it manually like that. Lars will know how - I would need to look it up. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1571668 Title: Mysql upgrade locks out its root user To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.7/+bug/1571668/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
