bacula-director-mysql tried to run dbconfig-common before mysql-server has finished installing

[Simon Green]

When installing bacula-director-mysql the package tried to configure it's username and DB in MySQL before mysql-server has finished setting itself up and started. Runs fine on second retry.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: bacula-director-mysql 5.2.5-0ubuntu6.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-38.61-generic 3.2.37
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-38-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zcommon znvpair zavl zunicode
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 26 09:48:39 2013
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120817.3)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: bacula
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Yolanda Robla (yolanda.robla)]

Thanks for reporting this
Please can you provide the logs for bacula-director-mysql where we can see more info about that?

[Simon Green (qpayd-simon)]

Here is the console log. I've stripped out the updating and downloading sections:

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install bacula-director-mysql
[..............]
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-3.2.0-23-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-23 linux-headers-3.2.0-24 linux-headers-3.2.0-37 linux-headers-3.2.0-37-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-24-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  bacula-common bacula-common-mysql bacula-director-common dbconfig-common gawk heirloom-mailx libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libhtml-template-perl libmysqlclient18 libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl
  libsigsegv2 mysql-client mysql-client-5.5 mysql-client-core-5.5 mysql-common mysql-server mysql-server-5.5 mysql-server-core-5.5
Suggested packages:
  bacula-doc libipc-sharedcache-perl libterm-readkey-perl tinyca mailx
The following NEW packages will be installed
  bacula-common bacula-common-mysql bacula-director-common bacula-director-mysql dbconfig-common gawk heirloom-mailx libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libhtml-template-perl libmysqlclient18 libnet-daemon-perl
  libplrpc-perl libsigsegv2 mysql-client mysql-client-5.5 mysql-client-core-5.5 mysql-common mysql-server mysql-server-5.5 mysql-server-core-5.5
0 upgraded, 21 newly installed, 0 to remove and 73 not upgraded.
Need to get 29.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 104 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
[..............]
Fetched 29.5 MB in 1s (26.2 MB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package bacula-common.
(Reading database ... 158725 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking bacula-common (from .../bacula-common_5.2.5-0ubuntu6.2_amd64.deb) ...
Adding user 'bacula'... Ok.
Selecting previously unselected package mysql-common.
Unpacking mysql-common (from .../mysql-common_5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libmysqlclient18.
Unpacking libmysqlclient18 (from .../libmysqlclient18_5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package bacula-common-mysql.
Unpacking bacula-common-mysql (from .../bacula-common-mysql_5.2.5-0ubuntu6.2_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libsigsegv2.
Unpacking libsigsegv2 (from .../libsigsegv2_2.9-4ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up libsigsegv2 (2.9-4ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Selecting previously unselected package gawk.
(Reading database ... 158906 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gawk (from .../gawk_1%3a3.1.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package heirloom-mailx.
Unpacking heirloom-mailx (from .../heirloom-mailx_12.5-1build1_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up bacula-common (5.2.5-0ubuntu6.2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Selecting previously unselected package bacula-director-common.
(Reading database ... 159004 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking bacula-...