[ZBX-19936] MariaDB 10.6 - Character-Set utf8 and Collation utf8_bin not available Created: 2021 Sep 09  Updated: 2021 Sep 09  Resolved: 2021 Sep 09

Status: Closed
Project: ZABBIX BUGS AND ISSUES
Component/s: Server (S)
Affects Version/s: 5.4.3, 5.4.4
Fix Version/s: None

Type: Problem report Priority: Trivial
Reporter: Michael Weber Assignee: Zabbix Support Team
Resolution: Duplicate Votes: 0
Labels: None
Remaining Estimate: Not Specified
Time Spent: Not Specified
Original Estimate: Not Specified
Environment:

Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
mariadb Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.6.4-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.2
zabbix_server (Zabbix) 5.4.4
Server version: Apache/2.4.38 (Debian)
PHP 7.4.23


Issue Links:
Duplicate
duplicates ZBXNEXT-6820 Can't connect MariaDB 10.6.4 Closed

 Description   

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Install Debian from Installer
  2. Add MariaDB Repository MariaDB - Setting up MariaDB Repositories - MariaDB
  3. Install Zabbix Server 2 Debian/Ubuntu/Raspbian [Zabbix Documentation 5.4]
  4. At Webconfiguration we see the message about invalid charset/collation

Result:
UTF8 not available:

MariaDB [(none)]> SHOW CHARACTER SET;
+----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+--------+
| Charset  | Description                 | Default collation   | Maxlen |
+----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+--------+
| big5     | Big5 Traditional Chinese    | big5_chinese_ci     |      2 |
| dec8     | DEC West European           | dec8_swedish_ci     |      1 |
| cp850    | DOS West European           | cp850_general_ci    |      1 |
| hp8      | HP West European            | hp8_english_ci      |      1 |
| koi8r    | KOI8-R Relcom Russian       | koi8r_general_ci    |      1 |
| latin1   | cp1252 West European        | latin1_swedish_ci   |      1 |
| latin2   | ISO 8859-2 Central European | latin2_general_ci   |      1 |
| swe7     | 7bit Swedish                | swe7_swedish_ci     |      1 |
| ascii    | US ASCII                    | ascii_general_ci    |      1 |
| ujis     | EUC-JP Japanese             | ujis_japanese_ci    |      3 |
| sjis     | Shift-JIS Japanese          | sjis_japanese_ci    |      2 |
| hebrew   | ISO 8859-8 Hebrew           | hebrew_general_ci   |      1 |
| tis620   | TIS620 Thai                 | tis620_thai_ci      |      1 |
| euckr    | EUC-KR Korean               | euckr_korean_ci     |      2 |
| koi8u    | KOI8-U Ukrainian            | koi8u_general_ci    |      1 |
| gb2312   | GB2312 Simplified Chinese   | gb2312_chinese_ci   |      2 |
| greek    | ISO 8859-7 Greek            | greek_general_ci    |      1 |
| cp1250   | Windows Central European    | cp1250_general_ci   |      1 |
| gbk      | GBK Simplified Chinese      | gbk_chinese_ci      |      2 |
| latin5   | ISO 8859-9 Turkish          | latin5_turkish_ci   |      1 |
| armscii8 | ARMSCII-8 Armenian          | armscii8_general_ci |      1 |
| utf8mb3  | UTF-8 Unicode               | utf8mb3_general_ci  |      3 |
| ucs2     | UCS-2 Unicode               | ucs2_general_ci     |      2 |
| cp866    | DOS Russian                 | cp866_general_ci    |      1 |
| keybcs2  | DOS Kamenicky Czech-Slovak  | keybcs2_general_ci  |      1 |
| macce    | Mac Central European        | macce_general_ci    |      1 |
| macroman | Mac West European           | macroman_general_ci |      1 |
| cp852    | DOS Central European        | cp852_general_ci    |      1 |
| latin7   | ISO 8859-13 Baltic          | latin7_general_ci   |      1 |
| utf8mb4  | UTF-8 Unicode               | utf8mb4_general_ci  |      4 |
| cp1251   | Windows Cyrillic            | cp1251_general_ci   |      1 |
| utf16    | UTF-16 Unicode              | utf16_general_ci    |      4 |
| utf16le  | UTF-16LE Unicode            | utf16le_general_ci  |      4 |
| cp1256   | Windows Arabic              | cp1256_general_ci   |      1 |
| cp1257   | Windows Baltic              | cp1257_general_ci   |      1 |
| utf32    | UTF-32 Unicode              | utf32_general_ci    |      4 |
| binary   | Binary pseudo charset       | binary              |      1 |
| geostd8  | GEOSTD8 Georgian            | geostd8_general_ci  |      1 |
| cp932    | SJIS for Windows Japanese   | cp932_japanese_ci   |      2 |
| eucjpms  | UJIS for Windows Japanese   | eucjpms_japanese_ci |      3 |
+----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+--------+

Expected:
.. i dont know. I created a workaround for mysql by editing the include/defines.inc.php

define('ZBX_DB_DEFAULT_CHARSET', 'UTF8MB3');
define('ZBX_DB_MYSQL_DEFAULT_COLLATION', 'utf8mb3_bin');


 Comments   
Comment by Edgar Akhmetshin [ 2021 Sep 09 ]

Hello Michael,

This issue was fixed in ZBXNEXT-6820 and will be released with the upcoming packages: 5.0.16/5.4.5/6.0.0.
https://git.zabbix.com/projects/ZBX/repos/zabbix/pull-requests/2871/diff#ChangeLog.d/feature/ZBXNEXT-6820

Closing as a duplicate.

Regards,
Edgar

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