Won't start if old_passwords=1 is in my.cnf

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Automatically imported from Debian bug report #333132 http://bugs.debian.org/333132

[Christian Hammers (ch)]

Hello Martin

On 2005-10-10 Martin Sarsale wrote:
> I upgraded some days ago and, after rebooting, I found that my mysql was
> not running. This was printed on the daemon log

Please upgrade to mysql-server-4.1. The problem should vanish in a few
days when the next version enters "testing".

bye,

-christian-

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Automatically imported from Debian bug report #333132 http://bugs.debian.org/333132

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Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:08:22 -0300
From: Martin Sarsale <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: Won't start if old_passwords=1 is in my.cnf

Package: mysql-server
Version: 4.0.24-10
Severity: serious

I upgraded some days ago and, after rebooting, I found that my mysql was
not running.
This was printed on the daemon log

Oct 10 13:04:11 runa mysqld[8490]: 051010 13:04:11 /usr/sbin/mysqld:
unknown variable 'old_passwords=1'

I removed that line from my.cnf and it started ok.

I've no idea what package added that line to my.cnf but Im (almost) sure
that I didn't

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12ck
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages mysql-server depends on:
ii adduser 3.67 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf 1.4.58 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdbi-perl 1.48-2 Perl5 database interface by Tim Bu
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.1-2 GCC support library
ii libmysqlclient12 4.0.24-10 mysql database client library
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.6-7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-8 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii mailx 1:8.1.2-0.20050715cvs-1 A simple mail user agent
ii mysql-client 4.0.24-10 mysql database client binaries
ii mysql-common 5.0.12beta-2 mysql database common files (e.g.
ii passwd 1:4.0.3-35 change and administer password and
ii perl 5.8.7-3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii psmisc 21.6-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-4 compression library - runtime

mysql-server recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  mysql-server/skip_networking: false
  mysql-server/really_downgrade_from_41: false
  mysql-server/want_chroot: false
* mysql-server/start_on_boot: true
  mysql-server/postrm_remove_databases: false
* mysql-server/mysql_install_db_notes:
  mysql-server/nis_warning:
  mysql-server/mysql_update_hints1:
* mysql-server/postrm_remove_database: false
  mysql-server/fix_privileges_warning:

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Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:05:42 +0200
From: Christian Hammers <email address hidden>
To: Martin Sarsale <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#333132: Won't start if old_passwords=1 is in my.cnf

Hello Martin

On 2005-10-10 Martin Sarsale wrote:
> I upgraded some days ago and, after rebooting, I found that my mysql was
> not running. This was printed on the daemon log

Please upgrade to mysql-server-4.1. The problem should vanish in a few
days when the next version enters "testing".

bye,

-christian-

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

Bug has been fixed in latest version of package in Dapper. Closing.