Comment 2 for bug 1863318

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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote : Re: package mysql-server-5.7 5.7.29-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

From your log:
mysql_upgrade: Got error: 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) while connecting to the MySQL server

I'd call it a dup of bug 1592669, but that is meant to be fixed.
Why does it show up "again".

Subscribing Lars and Robie to take a mysql-look