On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 12:44:21PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: >... > The situation for MariaDB warranted documentation in the Release Notes: > > https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/issues.html#mariadb-major-version-upgrades-only-work-reliably-after-a-clean-shutdown > > Maybe we can reduce the amount of people running into the scenario where > this is needed by giving sound upgrade instructions? >...
I would dispute that what you linked for MariaDB is a sound upgrade instruction. If the user followed this instruction, and if during the upgrade bacula-director-mysql ends up getting configured before mariadb-server, then the postinst of bacula-director will try to upgrade its schema in a database that is not running. > Paul cu Adrian
