package mysql-server-5.0 5.1.30really5.0.75-0ubuntu10.2 failed to install/upgrade: my.cnf was missing

[martin]

When installing this package, it won't start because of (or at least reports 3 warnings about) the missing file /etc/mysql/my.cnf. I tried to remove it, re-install it, but the file is still missing.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: mysql-server-5.0 5.1.30really5.0.75-0ubuntu10.2
SourcePackage: mysql-dfsg-5.0
Title: package mysql-server-5.0 5.1.30really5.0.75-0ubuntu10.2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686

[Andreas Olsson (andol)]

For a configuration files (among others) to be recreated at reinstall the original package need to be purge. The file /etc/mysql/my.cnf belong to the package mysql-common. Hence you want to purge the package mysql-common and then reinstall.

Does that help?

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[martin (mbvlist)]

I'll try to do that this night, but I'm a bit busy with a thesis and stuff like that.

[martin (mbvlist)]

apt-get remove mysql-common will make sure I have to remove 43 packages:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-common dolphin
  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad kdebase-bin kdebase-data kdebase-runtime
  kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4 kdelibs-bin kdelibs5 kfind khelpcenter4 kile
  konqueror konqueror-nsplugins konsole libapache2-mod-php5 libaprutil1
  libdbd-mysql-perl libgmyth0 libkonq5 libmysqlclient15off libokularcore1
  libqt4-sql-mysql librdf0 libsoprano4 libsvn-perl libsvn1 libsvncpp1
  mysql-client-5.0 mysql-common mysql-server mysql-server-5.0
  mysql-server-core-5.0 okular okular-extra-backends php5-mysql
  python-subversion rapidsvn redland-utils soprano-daemon subversion

I'll give it a shot tomorrow in a virtual machine. I've seen in /var/log/apt/term.log.2.gz (my oldest) that mysql-common was installed a lot earlier than mysql-client and mysql-server. But it doesn't show up in /var/log/dpkg.log. My best shot is that it was installed during the installation, and somehow broken by an update.

[martin (mbvlist)]

My virtual machine doesn't have the server or client installed, but my.cnf is present, so I don't think I can help with that. Let's call it a freak of nature :)

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Marking as invalid.