Comment 3 for bug 1567612
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| Robie Basak (racb) wrote Re: package mysql-server-5.7 not installed failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 11 | #3 |
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
> Turns out that when dpkg configures the package, it tries to run mysql_upgrade with the root user and no password, which is insane to do to a database.
No, it tries to run mysql_upgrade as the debian-sys-maint user, which it creates on installation and attempts to maintain for this purpose. Doesn't it?
Could you please explain how you ended up with a broken debian-sys-maint user, or otherwise give us steps to reproduce? When done, please change the bug status back to New. Thanks!