debian-sys-maint is a system MySQL user created to be able to start/stop the databases and to carry out maintenance operations. The above error message is therefore due to a mismatch between the mysql debian-sys-maint password in the mysql database and that in the configuration file /etc/debian.cnf. Check and copy the password on file:

cat /etc/debian.cnf

log into mysql

mysql -u root -p

set the mysql database password for debian-sys-maint to that as on file in the /etc/debian.cnf

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'debian-sys-maint'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'the password in /etc/mysql/debian.cnf ';

restart the mysql service

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