mtop crashes

[dowie natan]

Binary package hint: mtop

ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
dpkg: error processing mtop (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 13 16:22:33 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: mtop 0.6.6-1.2
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: mtop
Title: package mtop 0.6.6-1.2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Needs to Depends on mysql-server instead of Recommends

[Kurt Litsch (kurt.litsch)]

Attached debdiff adds Daniel's suggestion (or rather, Depends) and fixes a couple of lintian warnings. Could someone in u-u-s please sponsor?

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi,

I disagree that mysql-server should be a dependency, it's possible
to run mtop against a remote mysql server.

I believe the correct fix should be to handle the mysql server not being
available.

I have linked the Debian bug report about this issue.

I'm un-subscribing the sponsors team as I don't believe we want
the current solution in the archive. Please re-subscribe them if
you have a different fix, or you disagree.

Thanks,

James