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If for some reason your debian-sys-maint account is unset in MySQL, during MySQL start you will have connect to server error. You might need to set this account in the MySQL server itself. cat /etc/mysql/debian.cnf to get the password value from the file. Then connect to the DB mysql -u root -p and execute: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'debian-sys-maint'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'YOUR_PASSWORD' WITH GRANT OPTION

just copy relevant timezone file from /usr/share/zoneinfo to /etc/localtime like: cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Moscow /etc/localtime