Sergei Golubchik added a comment - 2014-02-27 22:11 - edited Not quite, it's a regression introduced by MDEV-5529 . Thanks for reporting it, it'll be fixed in 5.5.37

Jorge Martínez López added a comment - 2014-02-27 22:15 Fantastic job Sergei, thanks for your swift response. Is there a workaround while 5.5.37 goes out?

Elena Stepanova added a comment - 2014-02-27 22:56 As a workaround, you can install libmysqlclient18 from 5.5.35 repository. You need to add the 5.5.35 repo to your /etc/apt/sources file, e.g. deb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/mariadb-5.5.35/repo/ubuntu precise main (if you prefer a different mirror, you can tweak the path in the similar fashion and see if the 5.5.35 repo is there, at least some mirrors have it). Then run apt-get update apt-get install libmysqlclient18=5.5.35+maria-1~precise libmariadbclient18=5.5.35+maria-1~precise Then you can remove 5.5.35 repo from the sources.list.

Jorge Martínez López added a comment - 2014-02-27 23:18 Thanks Elena, I'm afraid that didn't work as downgrading libmysqlclient18 and libmariadbclient18 triggers the removal of mariadb-client and mariadb-server (and a few other packages).

Elena Stepanova added a comment - 2014-02-27 23:22 Sorry, I didn't know you had the server on the same machine. Then you can just downgrade the whole set, whichever mariadb-5.5.36 packages you have, to 5.5.35, in the same way, and maybe pin the version to prevent automatic upgrades until 5.5.37 is released. Alternatively, I suppose you can just pull the 5.5.35 library, put it somewhere and upgrade the LD_LIBRARY_PATH for the client, will it work for you?

Jorge Martínez López added a comment - 2014-02-28 00:12 - edited Downgraded by running # apt-get install libmysqlclient18=5.5.35+maria-1~precise libmariadbclient18=5.5.35+maria-1~precise mariadb-client=5.5.35+maria-1~precise mariadb-server=5.5.35+maria-1~precise mariadb-client-5.5=5.5.35+maria-1~precise mariadb-server-5.5=5.5.35+maria-1~precise mariadb-client-core-5.5=5.5.35+maria-1~precise mariadb-server-core-5.5=5.5.35+maria-1~precise Then I added a hold to the packages apt-mark hold libmariadbclient18 libmysqlclient18 mariadb-client mariadb-client-5.5 mariadb-client-core-5.5 mariadb-server mariadb-server-5.5 mariadb-server-core-5.5 libmyodbc works again: jorgeml@london:~$ isql -v MySQL-asterisk-cdr +---------------------------------------+ | Connected! | | | | sql-statement | | help [tablename] | | quit | | | +---------------------------------------+ SQL>   Thanks Elena and Sergei!

Steph Locke added a comment - 2014-03-18 17:56 - edited I got this issue and was having trouble downgrading with the code provided by Jorge, turns out you have to also remove the var/lib/mysql files sudo apt-get purge mysql* mariadb* sudo rm /etc/mysql -R sudo rm /var/lib/mysql -R sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient18=5.5.35+maria-1~precise libmariadbclient18=5.5.35+maria-1~precise mariadb-client=5.5.35+maria-1~precise mariadb-server=5.5.35+maria-1~precise mariadb-client-5.5=5.5.35+maria-1~precise mariadb-server-5.5=5.5.35+maria-1~precise mariadb-client-core-5.5=5.5.35+maria-1~precise mariadb-server-core-5.5=5.5.35+maria-1~precise mariadb-common=5.5.35+maria-1~precise mysql-common=5.5.35+maria-1~precise