MariaDB refuses to connect to appwrite

Earlier, I tried updating my Appwrite version from 18.1.x to the latest release because my Flutter package required it to function properly. I used the official wizard to update my client to the latest version. Everything worked fine, and there weren't any errors on the console, so I assumed it was functioning properly. However, out of the blue, MariaDB refused to connect properly.

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This is what my Docker logs say literally, that is it. Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't know how to fix it. I tried deleting all volumes and networks, but to no avail.

2026-07-25 16:08:26 23 [Warning] Aborted connection 23 to db: 'appwrite' user: 'user' host: '172.18.0.30' (Got an error reading communication packets)

2026-07-25 16:08:26 22 [Warning] Aborted connection 22 to db: 'appwrite' user: 'user' host: '172.18.0.30' (Got an error reading communication packets)

is it mariadb that throwing this ?
is there logs in the appwrite container side ?

by any change do you use ARM or a specific setup ?

i highly recommend doing a backup if you didn't already (tho it souldn't corrupt any data as it drop anything that contains errors)

Yes MariaDB is throwing this, i followed and let the update installer manage this and it broke the whole system.
I'm using Windows x86_64, docker desktop, there isn't a specific setup that altered default appwrite in any way

Why could this be happening

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using WSL right ? not Hyper-v ? tho i think WSL
also do you use volumes or path based mapping volumes ??

iirc paths bound directly to windows can have issues in some containers

also did you use the installer before ?

for now i have no idea

Yes I am using using WSL

Perhaps it's a corrupt installation, maybe something happened, for now I'll update you wether this continues or not

I'll clone it from github directly and ditch the installer

@Ibaraki Douji

i noticed it was appwrites s3 endpoint connection

i tried transitioning from minio to seaweedfs same thing

how do i set it up correctly

_APP_STORAGE_S3_ACCESS_KEY=<USERNAME>
_APP_STORAGE_S3_SECRET=<PASSWORD>
_APP_STORAGE_S3_REGION=us-east-1
_APP_STORAGE_S3_BUCKET=appwrite
_APP_STORAGE_S3_ENDPOINT=http://appwrite-minio:9000

is this correct?

because i get this as an error

for S3 i would recommend checking the migration guilde i made here : https://discord.com/channels/564160730845151244/1507320206119141407

also the errors your showing are client side, what does it says server side in the appwrite container ?