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You are probably using a configuration file in /etc. Make sure you have your own configuration file, usually in the mariadb server base directory. For example, if the base directory is /usr/local/mysql, you should execute: ./scripts/mysql_install_db --basedir=/usr/local/mysql --defaults-file=/usr/local/mysql/my.cnf