package mysql-server-5.5 5.5.22-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: le sous-processus script post-installation installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1

[luna persa]

package mysql-server-5.5 5.5.22-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: le sous-processus script post-installation installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: mysql-server-5.5 5.5.22-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu6
AptOrdering:
 mysql-server-5.5: Configure
 mysql-server: Configure
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue May 1 10:19:57 2012
DpkgTerminalLog:
 Paramétrage de mysql-server-5.5 (5.5.22-0ubuntu1) ...
 start: Job failed to start
 invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
 dpkg : erreur de traitement de mysql-server-5.5 (--configure) :
  le sous-processus script post-installation installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1
ErrorMessage: le sous-processus script post-installation installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
Logs.var.log.daemon.log:

MySQLConf.etc.mysql.conf.d.mysqld.safe.syslog.cnf:
 [mysqld_safe]
 syslog
MySQLVarLibDirListing: ['ib_logfile0', 'performance_schema', 'debian-5.5.flag', 'mysql_upgrade_info', 'debian-5.1.flag', 'ibdata1', 'mysql', 'ib_logfile1', 'test']
SourcePackage: mysql-5.5
Title: package mysql-server-5.5 5.5.22-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: le sous-processus script post-installation installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-26 (5 days ago)

[yvesg (yves-grenier)]

I observe the same bug after un upgrade from lucid to precise. I then purged mysql-server and tried to install: this bug appears. This is the 64bits version of ubuntu precise.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.