Comment 9 for bug 973951

The duplicate is wrong (as the owner has admitted) in the other bug.

When I said I followed the instructions I referred to the initctl reload-configuration

root@s16224997:~# initctl reload-configuration
root@s16224997:~# apt-get install mysql-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
mysql-server is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
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
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                          Errors were encountered while processing:
 mysql-server-5.5
 mysql-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I even followed instructions from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.5/+bug/978995

and performed:

#touch /etc/apparmor.d/local/usr.sbin.mysqld

But it still doesn't work.

Why doesn't the maintainer roll back to a working version while fixes this issue? I can't install in a new server running precise the mysql-server package

Miguel