diff --git a/package/mariadb/mysqld.service b/package/mariadb/mysqld.service
index cd308310c6..3eaef173e1 100644
--- a/package/mariadb/mysqld.service
+++ b/package/mariadb/mysqld.service
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Description=MySQL database server
 
 [Service]
-ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c 'test "`ls -1 /var/lib/mysql | wc -l`" != "0" || mysql_install_db --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql'
+ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c 'test "`ls -1 /var/lib/mysql | wc -l`" != "0" || mysql_install_db --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql && chown -R mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql'
 ExecStart=/usr/bin/mysqld_safe
 Restart=always
 User=mysql