Well the latest issue to emerge occurred when I was trying to install a program for parsing web pages into RSS feeds. Two of these programs... Tiny Tiny RSS and Selfoss both asked for the mysql root account password. However, assuming it knew mysql was actually mariadb I tried the normal passwords and none of them worked.

After some quick research I found that possibly sometime during the version 6 updates some of the apps broke because the link to the mysql executable was broken. Since that was the case the link had to be fixed and was fairly easy.

First thing is to log in to a command line using the method published here. 

Once you are logged in as root then run the following commands:

root@SynoNAS:~# mkdir /usr/syno/mysql
root@SynoNAS:~# mkdir /usr/syno/mysql/bin 
root@SynoNAS:~# ln -s /usr/bin/mysql /usr/syno/mysql/bin/mysql

Problem fixed!

 

Research Links: https://github.com/SynoCommunity/spksrc/issues/2136