Testing switch to MariaDB found a possible issue with Bacula. When attempting to start Bacula-director getting an error message "No bacula-director SQL package installed". MySQL was installed, to replicate current environment, then did an upgrade to mariabd, restored all databases. Only DB I'm having issue with is bacula.

Using Ubuntu 14.04 with MySQL 5.5 upgraded to Maria 10.

run sudo aptitude install bacula-director-mysql aptitude wants to completely remove mariadb and reinstall mysql. Searched the internet and found no information about bacula being compatible or incompatible with mariadb.

You may have to build it from source to bypass the Have you seen http://sourceforge.net/p/bacula/mail...gs.bacula.org/ ?
It's a little 'old' but some of the content there may yield some clues or tips on how to 'fix' it.

it may be further possible that
bacula-director-mysql
and mariadb-server-5.5
could co-exist on the same server...

Perhaps the bacula installer added some UDF to your mysql database, but they aren't present in mariadb. User defined functions are not stored in the application database.

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/create-function-udf/