I had used the installation instructions appended to the 1.30.4 installation wiki. Everything had been working very well for some time and I had not made any changes prior to the DB corruption.
Output from 'lsb release -a':
'apt-get install mariadb-server' (after doing an update) produced/produces:No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux buster/sid
Release: stable-updates
Codename: sid
I purged all mysql packages that I can tell and was still unable to get mariadb-server to reinstall.Setting up mariadb-server-10.3 (1:10.3.12-1) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mariadb-server-10.3.postinst: line 24: 4669 Done echo "$password_column_fix_query"
4670 Aborted | $MYSQL_BOOTSTRAP 2>&1
4671 | $ERR_LOGGER
dpkg: error processing package mariadb-server-10.3 (--configure):
installed mariadb-server-10.3 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 134
Errors were encountered while processing:
mariadb-server-10.3
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Output from 'sudo dpkg -s mariadb-server-10.3' produced what looks like clues, but I am unable to figure out how I should proceed:
I have database backups and really only care about getting back configurations.Package: mariadb-server-10.3
Status: install ok half-configured
Priority: optional
Section: database
Installed-Size: 67212
Maintainer: Debian MySQL Maintainers <pkg-mysql-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Source: mariadb-10.3
Version: 1:10.3.12-1
Replaces: mariadb-galera-server, mariadb-galera-server-10.0, mariadb-galera-server-5.5, mariadb-server-10.0, mariadb-server-10.1, mariadb-server-10.2, mariadb-server-5.5, mariadb-tokudb-engine-10.0, mariadb-tokudb-engine-10.1, mariadb-tokudb-engine-5.5, mysql-client-5.5, mysql-server-5.5, mysql-server-5.6, mysql-server-5.7, virtual-mysql-server
Provides: virtual-mysql-server
Depends: galera-3 (>= 25.3), gawk, iproute2, libdbi-perl, lsb-base (>= 3.0-10), lsof, mariadb-client-10.3 (>= 1:10.3.12-1), mariadb-server-core-10.3 (>= 1:10.3.12-1), passwd, perl (>= 5.6), psmisc, rsync, socat, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, libc6 (>= 2.28), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0)
Pre-Depends: adduser (>= 3.40), debconf, mariadb-common (>= 1:10.3.12-1)
Recommends: libhtml-template-perl
Suggests: mailx, mariadb-test, netcat-openbsd, tinyca
Breaks: cqrlog (<< 1.9.0-5~), mariadb-galera-server, mariadb-galera-server-10.0, mariadb-galera-server-5.5, mariadb-server-10.0, mariadb-server-10.1, mariadb-server-10.2, mariadb-server-5.5, mariadb-tokudb-engine-10.0, mariadb-tokudb-engine-10.1, mariadb-tokudb-engine-5.5, mysql-client-5.5, mysql-server-5.5, mysql-server-5.6, mysql-server-5.7
Conflicts: mariadb-tokudb-engine-10.0, mariadb-tokudb-engine-10.1, mariadb-tokudb-engine-5.5, mysql-server-core-5.5, mysql-server-core-5.6, mysql-server-core-5.7, virtual-mysql-server
Conffiles:
/etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld 5b43a33a4995f3532bcea02d9c2c87c1
/etc/default/mysql 64e6d248978c07392628278d0be66888
/etc/init.d/mysql 52a3f49226c798a20e6e12e27e26381e
/etc/insserv.conf.d/mariadb 2588bf6ebd0da2f146befac246610658
/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.paranoid/mariadb-server-10_3 6babe46e791059cdd5a26f4f7fec9eca
/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/mariadb-server-10_3 a5b52544898b1d96ce64f96ec913ee65
/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.workstation/mariadb-server-10_3 a9766f2dd21ba5e5474526b9df4a82a7
/etc/logrotate.d/mysql-server 3b27c6ac3dbfe31c1c1db0f880b3a2f4
/etc/mysql/debian-start 8b54d37e689f0a3c54063930d931b8d6
/etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/50-mysqld_safe.cnf ace3390ea785e7bb3e87bee2ef0f9da8
/etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/50-server.cnf d9fb522444d1f9e27ea8ce366e592cdc
Description: MariaDB database server binaries
MariaDB is a fast, stable and true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database
server. SQL (Structured Query Language) is the most popular database query
language in the world. The main goals of MariaDB are speed, robustness and
ease of use.
.
This package includes the server binaries.
Homepage: https://mariadb.org/
Thanks for any help (I realize that this isn't a ZM issue but don't know where else to turn to to get help- seems that this just keeps pulling me further down the rabbit hole).