package mysql-server-5.0 5.1.30really5.0.75-0ubuntu10 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess pre-installation script killed by signal (Broken pipe)

[Jim Frey]

With new install of Ubuntu 9.04, on an old Dell dimension 2400, his is what I got from 'apt-get install phpmyadmin':

"dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/phpmyadmin.conf
*** WARNING: ucf was run from a maintainer script that uses debconf, but
             the script did not pass --debconf-ok to ucf. The maintainer
             script should be fixed to not stop debconf before calling ucf,
             and pass it this parameter. For now, ucf will revert to using
             old-style, non-debconf prompting. Ugh!

             Please inform the package maintainer about this problem.

Creating config file /etc/dbconfig-common/phpmyadmin.conf with new version

Creating config file /etc/phpmyadmin/config-db.php with new version"

On trying to access http://localhost/phpmyadmin I got the bug message.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess pre-installation script killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Package: mysql-server-5.0 5.1.30really5.0.75-0ubuntu10
SourcePackage: mysql-dfsg-5.0
Title: package mysql-server-5.0 5.1.30really5.0.75-0ubuntu10 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess pre-installation script killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Andreas Olsson (andol)]

During the install of phpmyadmin you should have been asked a few question. I take it you opted to use dbconfig-common to configure your database settings? Do you remember the answers you gave and the responses you got?

Also, the last respons I can see in the attached DpkgTerminalLog.txt looks like a failed attempt to install/setup a MySQL-server? Was that something you did before the apt-get install phpmyadmin?

[Jim Frey (sanfrey)]

Mysql had already been installed. I don't know why I got the failed install
message. Since Mysql was already configured, I opted NOT to use
dbconfig-common to configure the settings. Then I got the
error.

Late last night I did a purge & remove of phpmyadmin and repeated the
process ACCEPTING to have dbconfig-common configure the settings. That
fixed it.

Thanks for the quick reply, nice to see that. I hope the previous
information
helps.

Saludos from Mexico,

Jim Frey

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Andreas Olsson <email address hidden> wrote:

> During the install of phpmyadmin you should have been asked a few
> question. I take it you opted to use dbconfig-common to configure your
> database settings? Do you remember the answers you gave and the
> responses you got?
>
> Also, the last respons I can see in the attached DpkgTerminalLog.txt
> looks like a failed attempt to install/setup a MySQL-server? Was that
> something you did before the apt-get install phpmyadmin?
>
> ** Changed in: mysql-dfsg-5.0 (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> package mysql-server-5.0 5.1.30really5.0.75-0ubuntu10 failed to
> install/upgrade: subprocess pre-installation script killed by signal (Broken
> pipe)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/366294
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

Could you please provide the following information:

 * content of /var/log/daemon.log related to mysql processes:

    /var/log/daemon.log

 * apparmor audit messages related to mysqld:

    /var/log/kern.log

 * mysqld apparmor profile:

    /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld

 * list of mysqld apparmor profiles:

    ls -l /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld*

 * mysql configuration stripped of private information (such as password):

    /etc/mysql/my.cnf

 * extra mysql configuration from the conf.d directory:

    /etc/mysql/conf.d/

 * directory listing of mysql datadir (by default /var/lib/mysql):

    ls -l /var/lib/mysql

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

This problem has already been fixed for lucid. Thanks for the bug report.

Regards
chuck