package libmysqlclient16 5.1.41-3ubuntu12 failed to install/upgrade: error writing to '<standard output>': Success

[Mir Tanvir Hossain]

I was running a partial distro upgrade, and it hung for about an hour. I killed it, and got the error.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: libmysqlclient16 5.1.41-3ubuntu12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-20.30-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-20-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Apr 14 10:37:16 2010
ErrorMessage: error writing to '<standard output>': Success
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Logs.var.log.daemon.log:

Logs.var.log.kern.log:
 Apr 12 21:34:46 belkin kernel: [ 50.627730] type=1505 audit(1271133286.489:14): operation="profile_load" pid=884 name="/usr/sbin/mysqld"
 Apr 14 07:05:59 belkin kernel: [ 20.762157] type=1505 audit(1271253959.616:14): operation="profile_load" pid=898 name="/usr/sbin/mysqld"
MySQLConf.etc.mysql.conf.d.mysqld.safe.syslog.cnf:
 [mysqld_safe]
 syslog
MySQLVarLibDirListing: ['mysql', 'gudgie', 'ib_logfile1', 'mysql_upgrade_info', 'ibdata1', 'ib_logfile0', 'bookstoc', 'debian-5.1.flag', 'sakila']
SourcePackage: mysql-dfsg-5.1
Title: package libmysqlclient16 5.1.41-3ubuntu12 failed to install/upgrade: error writing to '<standard output>': Success

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

How did you kill it ? Could you give us more details about what happened from the moment the installation hangs ?

Related report before the crash is bug 563241

[Mir Tanvir Hossain (tanvir-mirtanvir)]

I run update-manager from a root shell. Then, the partial-upgrade hung for about an hour when it was trying to install the mysql server.

Then, I used Ctrl + c twice on the root shell to kill the update-manager.

After that, I run update-manager again from the same root shell. However, this time update-manager notified that file is locked. So, I used pkill to kill the dpkg process. As a result, all hell broke loose, and I had to reinstall Lucid to get the package-manager working again since apt-get became pretty useless. I even tried to use synaptic to fix the problem without any avail though.

I hope it helps.