[karmic] mysql-common fails to install

[Tomas Cassidy]

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic

$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.28-16-server #55-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 20 20:37:10 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ apt-cache policy mysql-common
mysql-common:
  Installed: 5.1.30really5.0.75-0ubuntu10.2
  Candidate: 5.1.37-1ubuntu5
  Version table:
     5.1.37-1ubuntu5 0
        500 http://mirror.optus.net karmic/main Packages
 *** 5.1.30really5.0.75-0ubuntu10.2 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I was trying to install mailutils on karmic and it failed when installing mysql-common.

$ sudo apt-get install mailutils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libmailutils2 libmysqlclient15off mysql-common
Suggested packages:
  mailutils-mh
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libmailutils2 libmysqlclient15off mailutils
The following packages will be upgraded:
  mysql-common
1 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 129 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/3,389kB of archives.
After this operation, 8,462kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 20233 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace mysql-common 5.1.30really5.0.75-0ubuntu10.2 (using .../mysq l-common_5.1.37-1ubuntu5_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement mysql-common ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-common_5.1.37-1ubuntu5_all. deb (--unpack):
 unable to stat `./usr/share/mysql-common' (which I was about to install): Stale NFS file handle
Selecting previously deselected package libmysqlclient15off.
Unpacking libmysqlclient15off (from .../libmysqlclient15off_5.1.30really5.0.83-0 ubuntu3_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libmailutils2.
Unpacking libmailutils2 (from .../libmailutils2_1%3a2.0+dfsg1-2_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package mailutils.
Unpacking mailutils (from .../mailutils_1%3a2.0+dfsg1-2_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-common_5.1.37-1ubuntu5_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

When I try to remove mysql-common, I also get errors.

$ sudo dpkg -P mysql-common
(Reading database ... 20357 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mysql-common ...
dpkg: error processing mysql-common (--purge):
 failed to delete '/usr/share/mysql-common/internal-use-only/_etc_mysql_debian-start.dpkg-tmp': Stale NFS file handle
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mysql-common

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Hi,

It looks like you are having problems with NFS, this isnt a mysql bug.

Regards
chuck

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Relevant error:

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-common_5.1.37-1ubuntu5_all. deb (--unpack):
 unable to stat `./usr/share/mysql-common' (which I was about to install): Stale NFS file handle
Selecting previously deselected package libmysqlclient15off.