/usr/sbin/mysqld is needed by cpanel-perl-5xx-munin error during cPanel update

Symptoms

You came across a similar error in the cPanel update logs.

[2021-03-30 01:41:46 +0200] /usr/sbin/mysqld is needed by cpanel-perl-532-munin-2.0.30-2.cp1194.x86_64

Description 

Execute the below command to see which package provides the file /usr/sbin/mysqld

rpm -qf /usr/sbin/mysqld

If the output is like below check if you have MySQL or MariaDB-server package installed.

rpm -qf /usr/sbin/mysqld
file /usr/sbin/mysqld is not owned by any package

On an affected server the mysql-community-server package was not installed.

rpm -qa | grep -i ^mysql*
mysql-community-libs-compat-5.7.33-1.el7.x86_64
mysql-community-common-5.7.33-1.el7.x86_64
mysql-community-client-5.7.33-1.el7.x86_64
mysql-community-libs-5.7.33-1.el7.x86_64
mysql-connector-java-8.0.23-1.el7.noarch

Workaround

Install the MySQL or MariaDB server package and wait for the next automatic cPanel update. It should run successfully this time. 

yum install mysql-community-server

For servers with MariaDB:

yum install MariaDB-server