Hi All, I had somehow made a mistake with my mariadb-server installation on the KVM guest. Removing it and re-installing it failed to setup correctly.
Like many others, I was tearing my hair out and not getting anywhere; removing and purging the packages, and removing any possible file that could be a problem. All without good result. Others seemed to "luck" their way out of the said problem and none could explain why it finally worked for them. TL/DR; The /tmp directory had, somehow, incorrect permissions, fixed with chmod 1777 /tmp This was the symptom: dpkg: error processing package mariadb-server-10.0 (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mariadb-server: mariadb-server depends on mariadb-server-10.0 (>= 10.0.27-0+deb8u1); however: Package mariadb-server-10.0 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package mariadb-server (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: mariadb-server-10.0 mariadb-server E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) The "unable to create tempfile" message in a logfile in /var/log (I think), was the aha moment. Anyway, it works fine now. The same problem has been experienced on the Internet for quite a few years; perhaps the mariadb installer or (dpkg?) can check for write permissions for the /tmp directory and report what the issue was .... Kind Regards AndrewM
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