Bug#708176: mysql-server-5.5 postinst SQL error 1064 syntax error

2014-03-11 Thread Bob Proulx
severity 708176 important thanks It would be really great if this would get fixed at some point. This appears to be some type of race condition. I don't always hit it. But I have hit it often enough that I had forgotten completely about it and debugged it a second time and reported it again. (N

Bug#708176: mysql-server-5.5 postinst SQL error 1064 syntax error

2013-05-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > Therefore the problem seems to stem from trying to do this fixup when > the fixup has already been done. Unfortunately it produces the scary > syntax error message that needs to be tracked down and understood. Looking at this closer the fix_privs section I think it could be si

Bug#708176: mysql-server-5.5 postinst SQL error 1064 syntax error

2013-05-13 Thread Bob Proulx
The postinst script appears to be trying to add columns to the mysql table in the "fix_privs" section. It is doing this by the non-interactive method of piping SQL input into the client. All fine. However the method used really "works" only once. A smaller test case than the entire postinst scr

Bug#708176: mysql-server-5.5 postinst SQL error 1064 syntax error

2013-05-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: mysql-server-5.5 Version: 5.5.30+dfsg-1.1 Severity: normal After upgrading to Wheezy I am now seeing this error message in the logs. May 13 07:17:19 devastation mysqld_safe[8596]: ERROR: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server