Preparing to unpack .../mysql-server-5.7_5.7.17-0ubuntu0.16.04.2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking mysql-server-5.7 (5.7.17-0ubuntu0.16.04.2) ... Selecting previously unselected package libhtml-template-perl. Preparing to unpack .../libhtml-template-perl_2.95-2_all.deb ... Unpacking libhtml-template-perl (2.95-2) ... Selecting previously unselected package mysql-server. Preparing to unpack .../mysql-server_5.7.17-0ubuntu0.16.04.2_all.deb ... Unpacking mysql-server (5.7.17-0ubuntu0.16.04.2) ... Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu16) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... Setting up libaio1:amd64 (0.3.110-2) ... Setting up mysql-client-core-5.7 (5.7.17-0ubuntu0.16.04.2) ... Setting up mysql-client-5.7 (5.7.17-0ubuntu0.16.04.2) ... Setting up mysql-server-core-5.7 (5.7.17-0ubuntu0.16.04.2) ... Setting up libevent-core-2.0-5:amd64 (2.0.21-stable-2ubuntu0.16.04.1) ... Setting up mysql-server-5.7 (5.7.17-0ubuntu0.16.04.2) ... update-alternatives: using /etc/mysql/mysql.cnf to provide /etc/mysql/my.cnf (my.cnf) in auto mode Renaming removed key_buffer and myisam-recover options (if present) Job for mysql.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status mysql.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing package mysql-server-5.7 (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1