package mysql-server-5.5 5.5.57-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[julian toledo]

package mysql-server-5.5 5.5.57-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: mysql-server-5.5 5.5.57-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-117.164-generic 3.13.11-ckt39
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-117-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.25
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Aug 8 20:12:53 2017
DuplicateSignature: package:mysql-server-5.5:5.5.57-0ubuntu0.14.04.1:subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-29 (617 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20140807.1)
Logs.var.log.daemon.log:

Logs.var.log.mysql.error.log:
 2017-08-08 20:06:13 24613 [ERROR] Unknown/unsupported storage engine: InnoDB
 2017-08-08 20:06:13 24613 [ERROR] Aborting

 2017-08-08 20:06:13 24613 [Note] Binlog end
 2017-08-08 20:06:13 24613 [Note] /opt/mysql/server-5.6/bin/mysqld: Shutdown complete
MySQLConf.etc.mysql.conf.d..keepme:
MySQLConf.etc.mysql.conf.d.mysqld.safe.syslog.cnf:
 [mysqld_safe]
 syslog
MySQLConf.etc.mysql.my.cnf: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/mysql/my.cnf'
MySQLVarLibDirListing: ['ib_logfile1', 'centralLog', 'test', 'inPark_test', 'mysql', 'tilllate_dev', 'debian-5.5.flag', 'ibdata1', 'dev', 'centralLog_test', 'wordlist_test', 'ib_logfile0', 'inPark', 'auto.cnf', 'mysql_upgrade_info', 'performance_schema', 'wordlist', 'tilllate_test', 'food', 'food_test', 'wordlist_dev']
ProcCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-117-generic root=UUID=ecf48fb6-bff7-4436-bfe2-a0854092f709 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.17.5ubuntu5.7
 apt 1.0.1ubuntu2.17
SourcePackage: mysql-5.5
Title: package mysql-server-5.5 5.5.57-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2017-05-05 (95 days ago)

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Hi Julian,
From your log:
 2017-08-08 20:06:13 24613 [ERROR] Unknown/unsupported storage engine: InnoDB

The server is restarted on the upgrade.
It seems to me it wasn't having a config or running properly before - which is why it fails to restart on upgrade.

Is you mysql server running fine now (=before the upgrade, as that was rerolled)?

I checked and as expceted that DB type is working on Trusty when run as it comes configured out of the box. An example /var/log/mysql/error.log looks like [1].
There is no full error log, so I can't try to check see why InnoDB isn't initializing.
Mabye disabled in the config?

[1]: http://paste.ubuntu.com/25275681/

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Since it seems likely to me that this is a local configuration problem, rather than a bug in Ubuntu, I'm marking this bug as Incomplete.

If indeed this is a local configuration problem, you can find pointers to get help for this sort of problem here: http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community

Or if you believe that this is really a bug, then you may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem, explain why you believe this is a bug in Ubuntu rather than a problem specific to your system, and then change the bug status back to New.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for mysql-5.5 (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]