mysql_install_db fails with both 5.5.42 and 5.6.23

[Giuseppe Maxia]

Installing Percona Server 5.6.23 (and the same with PS 5.5.42) fails with the following error

$ ./scripts/mysql_install_db --no-defaults --user=$USER \
  --basedir=$PWD/ps5.6.23 \
  --datadir=$PWD/data
error while creating grant tables
 ./bin/my_print_defaults: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
FATAL ERROR: Neither host 'host1' nor 'localhost' could be looked up with
 ./bin/resolveip
Please configure the 'hostname' command to return a correct
hostname.

Notice that the hostname command works

$ hostname
host1

Also notice that upstream MySQL 5.6.23 on the same host installs without issues.

[Giuseppe Maxia (giuseppe-maxia)]

 The host where the error occurred is Ubuntu 12.04

$ uname -a
Linux host1 3.2.0-51-generic #77-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 24 20:18:19 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Giuseppe Maxia (giuseppe-maxia)]

Same problem in CentOS 6.5

[Sergei Glushchenko (sergei.glushchenko)]

Notice that actual error is

./bin/my_print_defaults: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Which looks like a duplicate of bug 1172916