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Thanks. Yes, I created a database backup, cleared the mysql root password, and ran dpkg, and everything worked with no errors.

Looking forward to the next zoneminder version to be able to set a root password again.

There is no user or password in /etc/mysql/debian.cnf -- I'm out of my depth with mysql configuration, and zoneminder settings, so trying to look through every config file that I can find is not proving to be useful. I have cleared the mysql root password. I'm hoping that zoneminder is not going to ...

Ok, thanks iconnor. So clearing the mysql root password would be the workaround in the meantime?

Thanks. Any idea what search terms I might be able to use to find an answer? I don't seem to be able to turn anything up.

I have ZoneMinder up and running well, however there's an issue with dpkg where every time I upgrade any package on my system, it throws an error and I have to manually restart the zoneminder service: Errors were encountered while processing: zoneminder E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error ...