Robie even

On Tue, 19 Nov 2019, 17:34 Neale Francis, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks will do have a look cheers Robbie
>
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2019, 11:46 Robie Basak, <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> We're getting some additional duplicates of this bug against MySQL 8.0.
>> It might be an idea to look through the recent dupes and try to identify
>> a list of common failures that we could automatically attempt to fix in
>> postinst.
>>
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>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1612517
>>
>> Title:
>>   Server fails to start after upgrade because of customized config and
>>   obsolete/renamed directives
>>
>> Status in mysql-5.7 package in Ubuntu:
>>   Confirmed
>> Status in mysql-8.0 package in Ubuntu:
>>   Confirmed
>>
>> Bug description:
>>   Separate from LP: #1571865 because this concerns options we don't try
>>   to automatically fix.
>>
>>   When users upgrade from 5.5 (and especially if that was also an
>>   upgrade from earlier versions) and have custom configs, 5.7 may refuse
>>   to start because the config contains options that have been removed.
>>   The same can happen with any other upgrade, like from 5.7 to 8.0.
>>
>>   By "custom config", we actually mean two possibilities:
>>   a) non-default config file (like /etc/mysql/my.cnf)
>>   b) non-default config option (like NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER, which was
>> dropped in 8, but was never part of the default config files shipped with
>> the package)
>>
>>   Options may have been removed due to becoming obsolete, or due to
>>   being renamed. Postinst will print the offending option to the
>>   terminal, but this might not be apparent in the text dump from a large
>>   upgrade operation.
>>
>>   http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysqld-option-tables.html has a
>>   list of options that will be accepted for 5.7
>>
>>   The advantage of the current solution (print option name and throw
>> error) is that after fixing the config, apt-get -f install should complete
>> the upgrade fully.
>>   The disadvantage is that it will abort the upgrade process, which might
>> be a full distro upgrade.
>>
>>   The alternative would be to print a warning, which might not be
>>   noticed, and complete the install without running mysql_upgrade or
>>   starting the service.
>>
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