The vanilla xenial -> bionic -> focal upgrade succeeded for me. mysql was upgraded to 8.0, and the "query_cache*" parameters were removed from my config file. The mysql-server service appears to be running without error.
My suspicion is that there is a custom setting in your config making it not a pure vanilla upgrade. This is actually a known issue, here:
The vanilla xenial -> bionic -> focal upgrade succeeded for me. mysql was upgraded to 8.0, and the "query_cache*" parameters were removed from my config file. The mysql-server service appears to be running without error.
My suspicion is that there is a custom setting in your config making it not a pure vanilla upgrade. This is actually a known issue, here:
https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ mysql-8. 0/+bug/ 1612517
I'm going to dupe this to that bug.