Hi all, On 3th of januari I posted the following topic, on the previous list address, maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net, and gave it a reminder on the 19th of januari. I did not get an answer yet, maybe also because the list address changed in the mean time. So I take the liberty to pose the question again here, hoping this time someone is able to answer the the questions asked. Would be much appreciated! (I didn't mention it in the OP, but I've read https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-dump/, which does not seem to answer the questions) regards, Jogchum Hi, 12th of October I started the topic" Maria-db refuses to start". With the help offered in the conversation following I could access my data by manually starting an older version of Mariadb. This was on the previous list address, maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net, so I then dumped my tables with mysqldump, one by one, successfully. I also dumped the mysql table. Final advice was to purge all reminiscences of the older versions, and make a fresh start by installing the version of my OS (OpenSuse Tumbleweed). In that new environment, import the dumped data. A few questions remain: - should I, after the install process of the OS version (at the moment 10.10.2-1.1) take further actions to get a fully functioning system? - should I import the dumped "mysql" table? - if yes, should I do that before or after importing the user data? Or doesn't that matter? Again, thanks for your answers! kind regards, Jogchum