Hello Daniel! It seems there are some issues with the passwordless login patch you sent me some weeks ago (https://github.com/ottok/mariadb-10.0/pull/3) Can you help me debug the failing postinst script? I added 'set -x' to the mariadb-server-10.0.postinst script and when it is run during the configure phase it will exit with code 1 and make dpkg abort the installation. Last lines of execution: SET sql_log_bin=0; CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS plugin (name char(64) COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL DEFAULT '\'''\'', dl char(128) COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL DEFAULT '\'''\'', PRIMARY KEY (name)) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_bin COMMENT='\''MySQL plugins'\'';' + logger -p daemon.err -t mysqld_safe -i + /usr/sbin/mysqld --bootstrap --user=mysql --skip-grant-tables --default-storage-engine=myisam --plugin-load-add=auth_socket + set -e + echo 'SET sql_log_bin=0; USE mysql; DELIMITER //; CREATE PROCEDURE debian_plugin_install(IN plugin_name CHAR(50), IN soname CHAR(50)) BEGIN DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER FOR NOT FOUND EXECUTE inst_plug; set @plugin_name=plugin_name; set @soname=soname ;set @install_plugin=CONCAT("INSTALL PLUGIN ",@plugin_name," SONAME '\''", @soname, "'\''");PREPARE inst_plug FROM @install_plugin ; select PLUGIN_NAME INTO @a from information_schema.plugins where PLUGIN_NAME=@plugin_name AND PLUGIN_STATUS='\''ACTIVE'\'' AND PLUGIN_TYPE='\''AUTHENTICATION'\'' AND PLUGIN_LIBRARY LIKE concat(@soname,'\''%'\'' ); DEALLOCATE PREPARE inst_plug; END// CALL debian_plugin_install('\''unix_socket'\'', '\''auth_socket'\'') // DROP PROCEDURE debian_plugin_install//' + logger -p daemon.err -t mysqld_safe -i + /usr/sbin/mysqld --bootstrap --user=mysql --skip-grant-tables --default-storage-engine=myisam --plugin-load-add=auth_socket timo@debunstable:~$ echo $? 1 timo@debunstable:~$ echo $? 0 This implies that the exit code from the line '/usr/sbin/mysqld --bootstrap --user=mysql --skip-grant-tables --default-storage-engine=myisam --plugin-load-add=auth_socket' is 1. Any ideas why? If you want to test it yourself, add to you apt sources the test repo deb http://labs.seravo.fi/~otto/mariadb-repo/ mariabd-10.0-sid-amd64/