Background This article explains how to upgrade the default MariaDB 10.1 installation provided with Linux Mint 19 Tara or Tessa to MariaDB 10.3. One reason
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: