Installing MariaDB over prior mysql installation fails, crashes, uses up all disk space

Install MariaDB on after removing mysql 5.6.27. Maria will eat up disk space until it runs out and then crash. Binlogs are turned OFF but the binlog files grow until they eat all space. Once the first one is done growing, another file grows. This also happens if upgrading mysql to 5.6.28. Once it fails, it'll restart and eat up all the disk space (and CPU in the meantime) again. Over and over and over and over again. Happens with mysql 5.6, mariadb 10.1. See MySQL bug: https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=80158&thanks=2&notify=3

See attached error log.