PSA When updating to ubuntu 26.04 MariaDB changed it default database location

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  • Nextcloud Server version (e.g., 29.x.x):
    • 33.0.0
  • Operating system and version (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04):
    • 24.06
  • Web server and version (e.g, Apache 2.4.25):
    • 2.4.66
  • Reverse proxy and version _(e.g. nginx 1.27.2)
    • 2.4.66
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    • 8.5
  • Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Yes / No):
    • Yes
  • When did this problem seem to first start?
    • After ubuntu upgrade
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    • Bare Metal
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    • no

Summary of the issue you are facing:

After an upgrade from ubutnu 25.10 to 26.04 the database was no longer found.
After logging into mariaDB the table and all users were gone.
After some looking around I found that the default locations of the databases has changed from /var/lib/mysql to /var/lib/mariadb
Updating the my /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/50-server.cnf to correct it back to the old location fixes the issue.

Steps to replicate it (hint: details matter!):

  1. Upgrade from 25.10 to 26.04

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Hi @ProfNova,

Ubuntu 25.10 is an interim release without long term support and not suited for server use.
LTS or ‘Long Term Support’ releases are published every two years in April and are the ‘enterprise grade’ releases of Ubuntu.

Strictly speaking, this is not a Nextcloud-specific problem.


ernolf

Hi. Im aware of it not being a nextcloud specific problem, more wanted to make this post so people were aware of this and how to fix it.