package mysql-server-5.1 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Kris]

I was installing using "tasksel install lamp-server"

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 31 00:00:52 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: mysql-server-5.1 (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic-pae
SourcePackage: mysql-dfsg-5.1
Title: package mysql-server-5.1 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic-pae i686

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Hi,

The DpkgTerminalLog seems to be have cut off. I was wondering if you ran out of disk space?

Regards
chuck

[TonyC (tony-cola)]

I just got the same error. The only difference is that I was not using tasksel, but had just typed the following command:
 sudo apt-get install lamp-server^
Seems very likely that this is the same error though. In response to the disk space question above, I have almost 100gigs of free space, and I have 3gigs of ram, so disk space should not have been a problem.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

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

[loke (developer-loke)]

Sorry, I do not have any of that any more, because I was able to install it with some tweaking. The problem was that the mysql service was not stoppable, even after rebooting. So I just killed the process, and then the process went OK.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Closing then.