Re: [IBMiOSS] Wrong version of MariaDB is starting

I am dealing with a mystery either caused by <bad memory> or a complete system shutdown and restart....

Here is the issue.  I have relocated my IBM i to a new co-lo which meant it was shut down, traveled across state lines and came up just fine about 5 days later.  It took a while to get all of the firewall and access established and although the websites hosted on the i are running, my WordPress sites threw database errors a la "Error establishing a database connection".  I had been starting mariadb from SSH with this command: /QOpenSys/usr/bin/sh /usr/local/mariadb/bin/mysql.sh start  Which runs just fine. Except that didn't solve the connection error. So, from SSH I attempted to log in to Mariadb directly and get "ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local server through socket '/QOpenSys/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)"  which is very weird since my SQL tool, Navicat, CAN open the databases and they appear to be up to date.

So, I checked the DB connections in the WordPress instances and noted that they were connecting though port 3307.  Navicat was connecting though port 3306.  Starting MariaDB with the command above, I see this in the logs:

2025-05-13 20:53:14 1 [Note] /usr/local/mariadb/bin/mysqld: ready for connections.
Version: '10.1.21-MariaDB'  socket: '/usr/local/mariadbdata/mariadb.sock'  port: 3306  Source distribution

So it seems like all is well, except the port doesn't match what is configured in the WP instances.  It *should* be 3307 and I know I didn't change it.  So I headed over to "Open Source Package Management" to check to see what was installed.  Package manager says 10.6.12-3 is installed, which doesn't match what I see in the logs.  Taking a look at the installed files for the package, I see a /QOpenSys/var/lib/mariadb/data folder and in that folder are the folders containing my DB files.

So, finally, the question:  Since I only recall using the mysql start command above, how was the "other" instance of MariaDB running and how do I find out how to start it?  I remember upgrading MariaDB but I don't recall running any command to start that instance, but I have slept many nights since that upgrade....