package mysql-server-5.5 5.5.32-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Gary Cartagena]

I had MySQL installed at one point. the system updater is trying to update that install and I ge tthe error above.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: mysql-server-5.5 5.5.32-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-49.75-generic 3.2.46
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-49-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jul 29 09:32:02 2013
DuplicateSignature: package:mysql-server-5.5:5.5.32-0ubuntu0.12.04.1:subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1)
Logs.var.log.daemon.log:

MarkForUpload: True
MySQLConf.etc.mysql.conf.d.mysqld.safe.syslog.cnf:
 [mysqld_safe]
 syslog
MySQLVarLibDirListing: ['mysql_upgrade_info', 'performance_schema', 'debian-5.5.flag', 'test', 'ib_logfile1', 'mysql', 'ib_logfile0', 'ibdata1']
SourcePackage: mysql-5.5
Title: package mysql-server-5.5 5.5.32-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[s k Nagesh (sknagesh)]

I am also getting error as below

Setting up mysql-server-5.5 (5.5.32-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) ...
start: Job failed to start
invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.5 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server:
 mysql-server depends on mysql-server-5.5; however:
  Package mysql-server-5.5 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                          Errors were encountered while processing:
 mysql-server-5.5
 mysql-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

How do we correct this?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[s k Nagesh (sknagesh)]

It turned out to be an apparmor issue. As I was having my mysql data in a different location during update ls -la /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld was overwrriten. This resulted in error. after correcting that file every thing is back to normal.

[blokkendoos (dooiegang)]

After udates I performed a
sudo apt-get autoremove. This error came up.

[xsuii (sherlock0he)]

I got the same problem today.

[Hadi Sadeqi (m-hadi-sadeqi)]

I had a mysql installed on ubuntu 12.04 was working well with apache2 and php5. Last days I experienced some problem with mysql, when I tried to open my local web projects they shown error: MySQL has gone away. I saw some information about 1 bad sector in SMART in disk utility. so I uninstalled mysql and tried to install it again and this error occured. Also I see some other errors in my system may related to this error, sometimes while using apt-get I see
[1]+ Stopped sudo apt-get ... ...