package mysql-server-5.1 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade:

[Michel Verbist]

mysql couldn't shut down during the install for some reason, and so the upgrade process hang.
I killed mysql manually, and the upgrade continued,
but at the end reported this error.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Nov 6 01:55:25 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: no package named `mysql-server-5.1' is installed, cannot configure
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: mysql-server-5.1 (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-16.55-generic
SourcePackage: mysql-dfsg-5.1
Title: package mysql-server-5.1 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-16-generic i686

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

It looks like the the log file got caught off I was wondering if you were still having this problem.

Regards
chuck

[Neil Perry (nperry)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!