mysql-server-core-5.5 is missing resolveip, which is required by mysql_install_db

[Jelle Zijlstra]

mysql-server-core-5.5 includes the mysql_install_db script, which uses mysql's resolveip script. However, this script is not included in the mysql-server-core-5.5 package, only in mysql-server-5.5.

This leads to the following (confusing) error message:

# mysql_install_db
Neither host 'devjelle2' nor 'localhost' could be looked up with
/usr/bin/resolveip
Please configure the 'hostname' command to return a correct
hostname.
If you want to solve this at a later stage, restart this script
with the --force option
# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS
Release: 12.04
# apt-cache policy mysql-server-core-5.5
mysql-server-core-5.5:
  Installed: 5.5.35-0ubuntu0.12.04.2
  Candidate: 5.5.35-0ubuntu0.12.04.2
  Version table:
 *** 5.5.35-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 0
        500 http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     5.5.35-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security/main amd64 Packages
     5.5.22-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Confirmed in Trusty. Thanks!