Unable to start mariadb service on WSL2 (Win10) Ubuntu 22.04

I'm trying to run the mariadb service on Ubuntu 22.04 on WSL2 but with no success. The MariaDB service could not be started.

Environment:

• Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19044.1645]
• WSL2 with Ubuntu-22.04
• Kernel version: 5.10.102.1

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install Ubuntu 22.04 from Microsoft Store

2. Run Ubuntu 22.04 from Menu Start

3. Execute sudo apt update

4. Execute sudo apt upgrade

5. Execute exit

6. Run wsl --shutdown from Powershell to restart WSL

7. Run Ubuntu 22.04 from Menu Start again

8. Execute sudo apt install mariadb-server mariadb-client

9. Execute sudo service mariadb start

   And here comes the problem:

   * Starting MariaDB database server mariadbd       [fail]

The output from sudo mysqld --verbose --user root looks like this:

2022-05-11 18:38:35 0 [Note] mysqld (server 10.6.7-MariaDB-2ubuntu1) starting as process 458 ...2022-05-11 18:38:35 0 [Note] InnoDB: The first data file './ibdata1' did not exist. A new tablespace will be created!2022-05-11 18:38:35 0 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.112022-05-11 18:38:35 0 [Note] InnoDB: Number of pools: 12022-05-11 18:38:35 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using crc32 + pclmulqdq instructions2022-05-11 18:38:35 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using liburing2022-05-11 18:38:35 0 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, total size = 134217728, chunk size = 1342177282022-05-11 18:38:35 0 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool2022-05-11 18:38:35 0 [Note] InnoDB: Setting file './ibdata1' size to 12 MB. Physically writing the file full; Please wait ...2022-05-11 18:38:35 0 [Note] InnoDB: File './ibdata1' size is now 12 MB.2022-05-11 18:38:35 0 [Note] InnoDB: Setting log file ./ib_logfile101 size to 100663296 bytes2022-05-11 18:38:35 0 [Note] InnoDB: Renaming log file ./ib_logfile101 to ./ib_logfile02022-05-11 18:38:35 0 [Note] InnoDB: New log file created, LSN=103292022-05-11 18:38:35 0 [Note] InnoDB: Doublewrite buffer not found: creating new2022-05-11 18:38:35 0 [Note] InnoDB: Doublewrite buffer created2022-05-11 18:38:35 0 [Note] InnoDB: 128 rollback segments are active.2022-05-11 18:38:35 0 [Note] InnoDB: Creating shared tablespace for temporary tables2022-05-11 18:38:35 0 [Note] InnoDB: Setting file './ibtmp1' size to 12 MB. Physically writing the file full; Please wait ...2022-05-11 18:38:35 0 [Note] InnoDB: File './ibtmp1' size is now 12 MB.2022-05-11 18:38:35 0 [Note] InnoDB: 10.6.7 started; log sequence number 0; transaction id 32022-05-11 18:38:35 0 [Note] Plugin 'FEEDBACK' is disabled.2022-05-11 18:38:35 0 [ERROR] Could not open mysql.plugin table: "Table 'mysql.plugin' doesn't exist". Some plugins may be not loaded2022-05-11 18:38:35 0 [Warning] You need to use --log-bin to make --expire-logs-days or --binlog-expire-logs-seconds work.2022-05-11 18:38:35 0 [ERROR] Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.servers' doesn't exist2022-05-11 18:38:35 0 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '127.0.0.1'.2022-05-11 18:38:35 0 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.db' doesn't exist2022-05-11 18:38:35 0 [ERROR] AbortingWarning: Memory not freed: 280

The output from sudo mysqld --verbose --user wzgf looks like this:

2022-05-11 18:41:41 0 [Note] mysqld (server 10.6.7-MariaDB-2ubuntu1) starting as process 496 ...2022-05-11 18:41:41 0 [ERROR] mysqld: File '/var/lib/mysql/aria_log_control' not found (Errcode: 13 "Permission denied")2022-05-11 18:41:41 0 [ERROR] mysqld: Got error 'Can't open file' when trying to use aria control file '/var/lib/mysql/aria_log_control'2022-05-11 18:41:41 0 [ERROR] Plugin 'Aria' init function returned error.2022-05-11 18:41:41 0 [ERROR] Plugin 'Aria' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.2022-05-11 18:41:41 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: The data file './ibdata1' must be writable2022-05-11 18:41:41 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: The data file './ibdata1' must be writable2022-05-11 18:41:41 0 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error.2022-05-11 18:41:41 0 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.2022-05-11 18:41:41 0 [Note] Plugin 'FEEDBACK' is disabled.2022-05-11 18:41:41 0 [ERROR] Could not open mysql.plugin table: "Table 'mysql.plugin' doesn't exist". Some plugins may be not loaded2022-05-11 18:41:41 0 [ERROR] Failed to initialize plugins.2022-05-11 18:41:41 0 [ERROR] Aborting

Additional remarks:

• Other services like Apache2 work fine
• On the same machine on WSL2 with previous Ubuntu (20.04) everything works fine