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Plesk Upgrade Fails Due To /root/.my.cnf

Had a Plesk upgrade fail with the following errors:

After extensive Google searches finally found the answer – the server had a /root/.my.cnf file with credentials, which were valid, but the simple presence of that file breaks the Plesk upgrade.

Removing/renaming the file makes the upgrade, or rather, the bootstrap repair, run fine.  That bootstrap command, by the way, can be run to repair the failed upgrade:

Then running the autoinstaller again finishes any unfinished upgrade tasks.