Comment 3 for bug 1496478

Hi Robie,

Thanks for your reply. I did see the messages about configuration files
but can honestly say, 'it wasn't me guv'. I didn't actually know that
mySQL had been installed until I got the update error about
inconsistencies in the package. I agree though that on the surface this
looks more like user error than a bug and will try to understand, within
reason of time and sanity, how this situation arose. Failing that I'll
backup and re-install Xubuntu and see what the vanilla version has
installed.

Thanks again for your reply,

Best regards,

David

On 17/09/2015 10:09, Robie Basak wrote:
> Thank you for your report.
>
> This looks like a local configuration problem, rather than a bug in
> Ubuntu, since you appear to have extensively deleted MySQL configuration
> files and so it cannot be expected to work.
>
> You can find pointers to get help for this sort of problem here:
> http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community
>
> Since we use this bug tracker to track bugs in Ubuntu, rather than
> configuration problems, I'm marking this bug as Invalid. This helps us
> to focus on fixing bugs in Ubuntu.
>
> If you believe that this is really a bug, then you may find it helpful
> to read "How to report bugs effectively"
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful
> if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem,
> explain why you believe this is a bug in Ubuntu rather than a problem
> specific to your system, and then change the bug status back to New.
>
> ** Changed in: mysql-5.6 (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Invalid
>