DirectAdmin MariaDB Upgrade from 5.5 to 10.0 with MySQL Governor

If you followed DirectAdmin's tutorial on how to upgrade your MariaDB database from version 5.5 to 10.0 here and stumbled upon this error:

error: %pre(MariaDB-server-10.4.18-1.el7.centos.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
error: MariaDB-server-10.4.18-1.el7.centos.x86_64: install failed

Here's the solution:

First, ensure that your DirectAdmin server does not have CloudLinux's MySQL Governor. Otherwise, follow the steps on how to upgrade your MySQL/MariaDB database using the MySQL Governor method.

Step 1: Backup

Backup your database including system databases. This is extremely important so in the event of unforeseen problems, you can always restore them.

Here's how you can perform a complete backup of your databases.

$ mkdir -p ~/mysqlbkp
$ service mysql restart --skip-networking --skip-grant-tables
$ mysql_upgrade
$ mysqldump --all-databases --routines --triggers > ~/mysqlbkp/dbcopy.sql
$ service mysql stop
$ cp -r /var/lib/mysql/mysql ~/mysqlbkp/
$ service mysql start

Step 2: Prepare Upgrade

Enter the following in your command line:

$ /usr/share/lve/dbgovernor/mysqlgovernor.py --mysql-version=MYSQL_VERSION

Where MYSQL_VERSION is the MySQL/MariaDB Version you wish to upgrade to. Check the table below for the keyword:

mysql51 MySQL v5.1
mysql55 MySQL v5.5
mysql56 MySQL v5.6
mysql57 MySQL v5.7
mysql80 MySQL v8.0 [requires MySQL Governor 1.2-37+; database packages available in beta only, so use --install-beta flag instead of --install]
mariadb55 MariaDB v5.5
mariadb100 MariaDB v10.0
mariadb101 MariaDB v10.1
mariadb102 MariaDB v 10.2
mariadb103 MariaDB v 10.3 [requires MySQL Governor 1.2-36+; for cPanel - MySQL Governor 1.2-41+]
mariadb104 MariaDB v 10.4 [requires MySQL Governor 1.2-53+]
percona56 Percona Server v 5.6

Eg: If you wish to upgrade to MariaDB 10.0, the command should be:

/usr/share/lve/dbgovernor/mysqlgovernor.py --mysql-version=mariadb100

Step 3: Install

Install the update:

/usr/share/lve/dbgovernor/mysqlgovernor.py --install

IMPORTANT: Ensure you your backup in Step 1 is successful.

The installation will be handled by the script and pretty straight-forward. You will see that the upgrade is successful when you see:

Installation of mysql for db_governor completed

Step 4: Verify

Verify the version installed by running:

$ mysql -V

And you should be able to see:

mysql  Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.0.38-MariaDB, for Linux (x86_64) using readline 5.1
  • directadmin, mariadb, mysql, mysql 5.5 to 10.0, mariadb 5.5 to 10.0, cloudlinux, mysql governor
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