FreeBSD 12.3
I had to power off my server for a hardware change (RAM). Upon rebooting all looked normal but none of my websites would connect. On checking I noted that mySQL57-server had been removed and mysql80-client-8.0.32 was listed. I promptly installed mysql80-server-8.0.32 and it failed to start.
I followed this thread in the hope that it would help ...
forums.freebsd.org
but to no avail. To test i used the my.cnf provided just to see if I could get mySQL80-server to start but that still didn't help.
At no point did I make any changes so I have no clue as to how this has all happened so looking for help here.
I had to power off my server for a hardware change (RAM). Upon rebooting all looked normal but none of my websites would connect. On checking I noted that mySQL57-server had been removed and mysql80-client-8.0.32 was listed. I promptly installed mysql80-server-8.0.32 and it failed to start.
I followed this thread in the hope that it would help ...

Heads-up: MySQL default Version will switch to 8.0
This is important enough to also post here. I'm sure it'll still catch people by surprise. Moin moin MySQL 5.7 is already for some time EOL. For this reason MySQL 5.6 will be deleted from the ports on 6/30/2023 and MySQL 5.7 on 12/31/2023. I have requested an exp-run today to change the...
but to no avail. To test i used the my.cnf provided just to see if I could get mySQL80-server to start but that still didn't help.
At no point did I make any changes so I have no clue as to how this has all happened so looking for help here.