Hello, First of all, here is what I'm working with: Original machine: MySQL Server 5.7.18-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 Destination machine: MariaDB 10.0.30-MariaDB-0+deb8u2 These two machines have no filesystem or communication with with other. I am moving to MariaDB with about 10 to 15 databases that were created in MySQL and I have had a very odd problem with the destination machine running MariaDB where the applications using these databases were having connection errors with their databases. I looked very carefully at what I had done. I exported the databases from MySQL using: $ mysqldump --all-databases > all.sql and imported the collection on the new machine with $ mysql -u root -p < all.sql When I log in as root, all appears well when I inspect the databases, but all is not well. The applications the use these databases cannot connect. I enter the command line to connect using the SQL user accounts, and guess what, they don't log in with their respective passwords. I can log in on the MySQL server using the same account/password pairs. I think it might be a permissions issue. I log into the MariaDB server as root and flush privileges, just to make sure, and I get a terribly vague error message (with no details dropped off in /var/log/mysql/ either). MariaDB [(none)]> flush privileges; ERROR 1105 (HY000): Unknown error When I reach this point, I perform something akin to these steps: sudo su service stop mysql apt-get purge mariadb-server mariadb-server-10.0 mariabd-comon mariadb-client mariadb-client-10.0 mariadb-client-core-10.0 mariadb-server-core-10.0 rm -rf /etc/mysql rm -rf /var/lib/mysql apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client exit and I'm asked for root password, etc and also run mysql_secure_installation with all suggested values. Voila, flush privileges works again on the MariaDB server, at least until I attempt to reinsert the databases. Are these problems somewhat unique? Is there a way to pry additional detail from mariadb, such as launching the server in a debug mode? What scenarios have people seen cause this in the past? Where do I look for detailed symptoms? Timothy D. Legg