Comment 4 for bug 880339

I have the same issue. Is there a resolution yet? I've already checked for unmerged configuration files and there are none. My dmesg contains a bunch of these:

[611629.676337] init: mysql main process (20978) terminated with status 1
[611629.676358] init: mysql main process ended, respawning
[611657.973001] init: mysql post-start process (20979) terminated with status 1
[611657.975861] type=1400 audit(1328627557.750:40441): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" name="/usr/sbin/mysqld" pid=21102 comm="apparmor_parser"
[611659.185792] type=1400 audit(1328627558.966:40442): apparmor="DENIED" operation="mknod" parent=1 profile="/usr/sbin/mysqld" name="/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock" pid=21106 comm="mysqld" requested_mask="c" denied_mask="c" fsuid=116 ouid=116