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mysql-5.7 package

  1. Bug #1584234
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1584234

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Simos Xenitellis  (simosx) wrote :

I had a look at the other bug report.

I think the significance in this report is that the mysql-server package can fail to install altogether (if the installation misjudges how much memory to assign to mysql), requiring the administrator to use package management commands in order to fix.

I got this problem when trying out Juju on the LXD provider.
The server had 2GB RAM, shared among the containers.
The installed mysql-server package got (auto?)configured to allocate 1.6GB of memory, thus failing to start, and failing to complete the installation. This is my recollection of what happened.
I had a look at the packaging of "mysql-server" and did not see any "autoconfiguration" for the memory. Therefore, it might just be Juju that configured the 1.6GB.
I'll try again to install Juju and get a better picture of what is happening.