Comment 6 for bug 973951

I've performed a cleanup after trying to install a new fresh 12.04 Ubuntu Server.

I followed your instructions (I think the my.cnf has been updated in the repos) but it's still not working:

root@s16224997:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg --configure -a
Setting up mysql-server-5.5 (5.5.22-0ubuntu1) ...
start: Job failed to start
invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.5 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server:
 mysql-server depends on mysql-server-5.5; however:
  Package mysql-server-5.5 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mysql-server-5.5
 mysql-server

Any work around or fix?

Thanks

Miguel