mariadb-upgrade

MariaDB suspicious Access denied during `debian-start` and then FATAL ERROR: Upgrade failed

On a seemingly working server you may encounter the following checking out the mysql status: Jun 15 10:32:33 host systemd[1]: Starting MariaDB 10.3.39 database server…

How to upgrade for MariaDB 5.5 to 10.1 and then to 10.3

You might encounter a situation (e.g. on AWS) where you have a new CentOS 7 server, but an old version of MariaDB 5.5 on the

Could not create the upgrade info file ‘/var/lib/mysql/mysql_upgrade_info’ in the MariaDB Servers datadir, errno: 13

Whilst doing this: mysql_upgrade -uusername -ppassword You get this: Could not create the upgrade info file ‘/var/lib/mysql/mysql_upgrade_info’ in the MariaDB Servers datadir, errno: 13 Solution: