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[Jogchum Reitsma <jogchum.reitsma@xxxxxxxxx>]

Op 12-10-2022 om 16:48 schreef Sergei Golubchik:
> Hi, Jogchum,
>
>
> normally the correct fix for that would be to install 10.5.8, start the
> server, shut it down, then upgrade.
>
> > Searching that message, I saw a post on
> > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=259364
> >
> > Like me, he had a non-default location for the databases configured in
> > /etc/my.cnf.
> >
> > The solution that worked for him was to change that to another location
> > in my.cnf, starting the database (which now succeeded), and copy the
> > existing databases to that new location.
> That's not how I read it at all.
> It seems to be about innodb_log_files_in_group option.
> Are you sure the url is correct?

No, sorry, it's not. The advice given there, to rename the log files, 
did not work for me.

Funny thing, I can't find the posting any more which *did* the trick 
with editing my.cnf  etc, I described above.....

> > 2022-10-02 21:27:17 0 [Warning] Can't create test file /home/jogchum/mysql_recover/linux-mkay.lower-test
> > ...
> > 2022-10-02 21:27:17 0 [ERROR] Aborting
> >
> > Anyone an idea why /home/jogchum/mysql_recover/linux-mkay.lower-test
> > can't be created and how to solve that?
> permission problem, perhaps?
All files and dir's under /home/jogchum/mysql_recover have mysql:mysql 
as owner:group
> it's not particularly important, as it's only a warning, and not a
> reason for the server failing to start.

I get that, but then what is it that mariadb won't start in the new 
environment....

Thanks for your reply!

regards, Jogchum

> Regards,
> Sergei
> VP of MariaDB Server Engineering
> and security@xxxxxxxxxxx