Comments - MariaDB refuses to stay confined to install directory
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You are using command-line options for mysqld_safe in a wrong order here:
defaults-file should be the very first option on the command line (see the documentation). The way you put it now, mysqld_safe simply ignores the defaults file and tries to use the socket location specified in one of the cnf files in default locations. Try to do it this way instead: