Installer reports failed due to bogus journalctl error

[Andrew]

I was installing the mysql-server package onto a new VM. I see "Job for mysql.service failed because the control process exited with error cocde"

I open journalctl -xe and it shows mysql.service as having started correctly.

I log in to mysql -u root -p with the password that the installer asked for and it works.

I think whatever error code was returned is bogus. But this has left the package manager in a half-configured state.

See attached file for terminal output of steps taken.

Additional info:
$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS"
$ uname -srvi
Linux 4.4.0-38-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 6 15:42:33 UTC 2016 x86_64