package mysql-client-core-5.5 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: cannot copy extracted data for './usr/bin/mysql' to '/usr/bin/mysql.dpkg-new': unexpected end of file or stream

[Anthony Flores]

I'm on Xubuntu 13.10 (latest ver and fully updated). Just finished installing Ruby on Rails with RVM (using these instructions http://gorails.com/setup/ubuntu/13.10) and was following the instruction of installing MySql and I received the error. I'll try to restart and reinstall and see what happens. Thanks for the help :).

May not be usefull but this is a log of recent packages I've installed. Beside these packages (and various updates) this is a pretty fresh virtual machine:

Start-Date: 2013-12-30 21:02:30
Commandline: apt-get install curl
Install: curl:i386 (7.29.0-1ubuntu3.4)
End-Date: 2013-12-30 21:02:37

Start-Date: 2013-12-30 21:05:01
Commandline: apt-get install git-core
Install: git-man:i386 (1.8.1.2-1, automatic), liberror-perl:i386 (0.17-1, automatic), git:i386 (1.8.1.2-1, automatic), git-core:i386 (1.8.1.2-1)
End-Date: 2013-12-30 21:05:21

Start-Date: 2013-12-30 21:22:47
Commandline: apt-get install zlib1g-dev build-essential libssl-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev
Install: libalgorithm-diff-perl:i386 (1.19.02-3, automatic), libstdc++6-4.7-dev:i386 (4.7.3-1ubuntu1, automatic), g++-4.7:i386 (4.7.3-1ubuntu1, automatic), libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl:i386 (0.04-2build3, automatic), libyaml-dev:i386 (0.1.4-2build1), libsqlite3-dev:i386 (3.7.15.2-1ubuntu1), g++:i386 (4.7.3-1ubuntu10, automatic), libreadline-dev:i386 (6.2-9ubuntu1), libalgorithm-merge-perl:i386 (0.08-2, automatic), libxslt1-dev:i386 (1.1.27-1ubuntu2), libssl-dev:i386 (1.0.1c-4ubuntu8.1), libssl-doc:i386 (1.0.1c-4ubuntu8.1, automatic), zlib1g-dev:i386 (1.2.7.dfsg-13ubuntu2), libxml2-dev:i386 (2.9.0+dfsg1-4ubuntu4.3), dpkg-dev:i386 (1.16.10ubuntu1, automatic), libreadline6-dev:i386 (6.2-9ubuntu1, automatic), libtinfo-dev:i386 (5.9-10ubuntu4, automatic), sqlite3:i386 (3.7.15.2-1ubuntu1), build-essential:i386 (11.6ubuntu4)
End-Date: 2013-12-30 21:23:29

Start-Date: 2013-12-30 22:02:05
Commandline: apt-get install libgdbm-dev libncurses5-dev automake libtool bison libffi-dev
Install: autoconf:i386 (2.69-1ubuntu1, automatic), libffi-dev:i386 (3.0.13-2ubuntu1), libtool:i386 (2.4.2-1.2ubuntu1), autotools-dev:i386 (20120608.1, automatic), libgdbm-dev:i386 (1.8.3-11ubuntu1), automake:i386 (1.11.6-1ubuntu1), libncurses5-dev:i386 (5.9-10ubuntu4), libltdl-dev:i386 (2.4.2-1.2ubuntu1, automatic)
End-Date: 2013-12-30 22:02:21

Start-Date: 2013-12-30 22:04:53
Commandline: apt-get --no-install-recommends --yes install gawk
Install: gawk:i386 (4.0.1+dfsg-2ubuntu1)
End-Date: 2013-12-30 22:05:01

Start-Date: 2013-12-30 22:18:25
Commandline: apt-get install xclip
Install: xclip:i386 (0.12+svn84-2)
End-Date: 2013-12-30 22:18:31

Start-Date: 2013-12-30 22:25:51
Commandline: apt-get install nodejs
Install: nodejs:i386 (0.10.24-1chl1~raring1), rlwrap:i386 (0.37-3, automatic)
End-Date: 2013-12-30 22:26:12

Start-Date: 2013-12-30 22:40:54
Commandline: apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient-dev
Install: mysql-client:i386 (5.5.34-0ubuntu0.13.04.1), libnet-daemon-perl:i386 (0.48-1, automatic), libaio1:i386 (0.3.109-3, automatic), libhtml-template-perl:i386 (2.91-1, automatic), libdbi-perl:i386 (1.622-1, automatic), mysql-client-core-5.5:i386 (5.5.34-0ubuntu0.13.04.1, automatic), libdbd-mysql-perl:i386 (4.021-1, automatic), mysql-server-5.5:i386 (5.5.34-0ubuntu0.13.04.1, automatic), libterm-readkey-perl:i386 (2.30-4build4, automatic), mysql-common:i386 (5.5.34-0ubuntu0.13.04.1, automatic), mysql-client-5.5:i386 (5.5.34-0ubuntu0.13.04.1, automatic), libmysqlclient-dev:i386 (5.5.34-0ubuntu0.13.04.1), libplrpc-perl:i386 (0.2020-2, automatic), mysql-server-core-5.5:i386 (5.5.34-0ubuntu0.13.04.1, automatic), mysql-server:i386 (5.5.34-0ubuntu0.13.04.1), libmysqlclient18:i386 (5.5.34-0ubuntu0.13.04.1, automatic)
Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
End-Date: 2013-12-30 22:41:11

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: mysql-client-core-5.5 (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-34.49-generic 3.8.13.12
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-34-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.5
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Dec 30 22:40:58 2013
DuplicateSignature: package:mysql-client-core-5.5:(not installed):cannot copy extracted data for './usr/bin/mysql' to '/usr/bin/mysql.dpkg-new': unexpected end of file or stream
ErrorMessage: cannot copy extracted data for './usr/bin/mysql' to '/usr/bin/mysql.dpkg-new': unexpected end of file or stream
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-28 (3 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release i386 (20130423.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: mysql-5.5
Title: package mysql-client-core-5.5 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: cannot copy extracted data for './usr/bin/mysql' to '/usr/bin/mysql.dpkg-new': unexpected end of file or stream
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Anthony Flores (aflores9192)]

OKAY! No worries. I made a snapshot on virtualbox before the installation. Just loaded it and made sure to install each ONE AT A TIME. Btw if anyone knows how to delete bug reports I would appreciate knowing since I dont think this is really worth keeping in launchpad.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Thank you for the update.

We don't delete bugs, since we don't know what else might reference them. Instead, we just mark as Invalid, which hides bugs from searches (by default), etc. For future reference, I think you can mark bugs as Invalid yourself, too.