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Issue Plesk Migrator fails on mysql connection

KDawson

Basic Pleskian
Server operating system version
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Plesk version and microupdate number
18.0.61
Running Plesk migrator shows:

Failed to fetch information from target servers

Cause: Command execution failed on the local server with non-zero exit code.

command: MYSQL_PWD="$(cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow)" mysql --silent --skip-column-names -u admin psa -e 'SHOW VARIABLES LIKE '"'"'socket'"'"''
exit code: 1

stdout:

stderr: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local server through socket '/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
How do I get past this?
 
For what it's worth, here are the mysql versions on migration source & target.

Source:
> mysql --version
mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 5.5.68-MariaDB, for Linux (x86_64) using readline 5.1

Target:
> mysql --version
mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.11.7-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using EditLine wrapper

I was migrating sites between this pair without problems yesterday. Overnight, Plesk Obsidian 18.0.61 Update 5 was installed (f that matters).
 
Also FWIW, /run/mysqld/mysqld.sock exists (it has all along). It ends with an "=" in an ls listing and the file utillity shows its type as "socket."

Doing ps -ax | grep mysql returns nothing, but ps ax | grep maria shows a mariadb process running.
 
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