Ubuntu
mysql-5.5 package

  1. Bug #1210380
  2. Comment #26

Comment 26 for bug 1210380

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Alex (alexman) wrote :

I realize this is an old one, but we just got hit by the same problem when "unattended upgrades" installed the latest 5.5.52 security fix on Ubuntu 14.04 last night. (http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3078-1/)

160914 6:37:33 InnoDB: 5.5.52 started; log sequence number 50715712437
ERROR: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'ALTER TABLE user ADD column Show_view_priv enum('N','Y'
) CHARACTER SET utf8 NOT ' at line 1
160914 6:37:33 [ERROR] Aborting

This took our application down, so we resorted to putting back an upgrade.