Hi,

In both cases, I get the exact same output to the two following commands:

$ rpm -qi mariadb-server
Name : mariadb-server
Epoch : 3
Version : 10.5.13
Release : 1.fc34
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Thu 30 Dec 2021 04:22:06 PM UTC
Group : Unspecified
Size : 71001174
License : GPLv2 and LGPLv2
Signature : RSA/SHA256, Thu 02 Dec 2021 03:32:29 PM UTC, Key ID 1161ae6945719a39
Source RPM : mariadb-10.5.13-1.fc34.src.rpm
Build Date : Thu 02 Dec 2021 01:13:13 PM UTC
Build Host : buildvm-x86-11.iad2.fedoraproject.org
Packager : Fedora Project
Vendor : Fedora Project
URL : http://mariadb.org
Bug URL : https://bugz.fedoraproject.org/mariadb
Summary : The MariaDB server and related files
Description :
MariaDB is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. It is a
client/server implementation consisting of a server daemon (mariadbd)
and many different client programs and libraries. This package contains
the MariaDB server and some accompanying files and directories.
MariaDB is a community developed fork from MySQL.

$ which mysql
/usr/bin/mysql

The difference, though, is in the output to 'ls -l /usr/bin/mysqladmin':

# Good case, in which I install mariadb before anything else and I can set root password with mysqladmin

# Note that /usr/bin/mysqladmin is a link to mariadb-admin

$ ls -l /usr/bin/mysqladmin

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 13 Dec 2 13:44 /usr/bin/mysqladmin -> mariadb-admin

# Whereas in the bad case, in which mariadb is installed after vim and git and mysqladmin doesn't allow me

# to set root password, /usr/bin/mysqladmin is an executable file and mariadb-admin is not installed

$ ls /usr/bin/mysqladmin -l
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 6738168 Nov 1 01:52 /usr/bin/mysqladmin

$ ls /usr/bin/mariadb-admin
ls: cannot access '/usr/bin/mariadb-admin': No such file or directory

I should probably also mention that:

1. I'm running these tests locally in VMs that I create with vagrant and I am using this box:

config.vm.box_url = "https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/34/Cloud/x86_64/images/Fedora-Cloud-Base-Vagrant-34-1.2.x86_64.vagrant-virtualbox.box"

2. I am replicating in my local environment this problem because it is manifesting itself in one of the OpenStack CI system job: https://zuul.openstack.org/builds?job_name=neutron-ovn-tempest-ovs-master-fedora. All those failures are due to this problem with mysqladmin. As it can be seen in the job's page, the problem started showing up on December 13th.

Any ideas as to what might be the root problem?

Thanks

Miguel

On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 7:43 PM Daniel Black <daniel@mariadb.org> wrote:

Hi Miguel,

On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 10:26 AM Miguel Lavalle <miguel@mlavalle.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am installing MariaDB in Fedora 34 server with the following sequence of commands:
>
> sudo dnf upgrade -y
> sudo dnf install -y mariadb-server mariadb-devel
> sudo dnf -y install git vim
>
> With this sequence of commands, I get the following installed:
>
> $ mysql --version
> mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.5.13-MariaDB, for Linux (x86_64) using EditLine wrapper
>
> and I can successfully perform the initial setup of the root password:
>
> sudo mysqladmin -u root password password
>
> and continue with the rest of my installation.
>
> However, if I change the sequence of commands to:
>
> sudo dnf upgrade -y
> sudo dnf -y install git vim
> sudo dnf install -y mariadb-server mariadb-devel

Odd -> $ repoquery --deplist git vim

doesn't list anything pulling in MySQL.

> What I get installed instead is:
>
> $ mysql --version
> mysql Ver 8.0.27 for Linux on x86_64 (Source distribution)

This looks like an Oracle mysql-client version. Do you have
community-mysql installed?

> and the 'sudo mysqladmin -u root password password' command fails with:
>
> mysqladmin: unable to change password; error: 'You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near '() IDENTIFIED BY 'secretdatabase'' at line 1'
>
> Could anyone shed some light on this?

given mysql --version, the client version is showing 8.0.27,
mysqladmin is also probably the Oracle version and is speaking a
slightly different syntax to MariaDB.