Comment 2 for bug 335676

root@kraken:~# svcadm enable svc:/application/database/mysql:default
root@kraken:~# echo $?
0
root@kraken:~# ps -eaf | grep mysqld
    root 14133 14075 0 23:56:38 ? 0:00 logger -p daemon.err -t mysqld_safe -i -t mysqld
    root 14075 1 0 23:56:33 ? 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe
    root 14177 12141 0 23:57:04 pts/2 0:00 grep mysqld
   mysql 14130 14075 0 23:56:38 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-fil
root@kraken:~#

Once the package is installed, I can enable it without any problems, so I'm not sure what's going on during the installation here.