Ok ..so it seems I am not a complete idiot this time! :-)

Please be careful that next 10.1 release does not have same problem. Because as I understand the problem it will probably remove all mariadb services if it has.

-- Peter

On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Sergei Golubchik <serg@mariadb.org> wrote:

Hi, Peter!

On Jan 31, Peter Laursen wrote:
> I have MariaDB 5.5, 10.0 and 10.1 installed (as Windows services named
> 'maria55'. 'maria10' and 'maria10_1' ) and always update them to
> latest soon after an update is available. Yesterday morning I
> installed 10.0.16 on top of 10.0.15 using the .msi installer. When I
> tried to connect to it a few hours later it was not possible.
...
> Questions:
> * Has somebody else experienced this?

Yes, https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-7531

I've already fixed it and we've replaced msi packages with fixed ones.
Of course, it was already too late for you, I know :(

At least, I hope, it'll help those users who are not as fast as you are.

> * Has somebody replaced @wlad as maintainer of Windows installers?
> @wlad was the only person who ever was able to write reasonable
> MySQL/MariaDB installers. So I would regret that.

At the moment we don't have a dedicated Windows developer,
unfortunately.

Regards,
Sergei