Addendum:
It helps to run
sudo mysqld
to see what the mysql-daemon has to complain about on your particular system - the messages one sees in apt-get don't help in these cases. The mysql log files had no contents either.
Addendum:
It helps to run
sudo mysqld
to see what the mysql-daemon has to complain about on your particular system - the messages one sees in apt-get don't help in these cases. The mysql log files had no contents either.