Thanks for the work and the updates.

I know I'm responding very late but to answer earlier questions:
I did not do any manual deletion of directories after uninstalling 
But I did install the MariaDB package in R (through R Studio). So maybe the error did have something to do with the difficulties that MySQL and MariaDB have together.

I manually recreated the missing directory, after that the install did seem to work. But I've not really used MySQL since. (I installed it as part of a course in R that in following.)

Hope that helps, thanks again!
JJ

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On Tue, 22 Feb 2022, at 21:12, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> ** Changed in: mysql-8.0 (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Fix Committed
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1958641
>
> Title:
>   Apport hook failures: missing conf dir; add_info() takes 1 positional
>   argument but 2 were given
>
> Status in mysql-8.0 package in Ubuntu:
>   Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
>  
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 228, 
> in _run_hook
>       symb['add_info'](report, ui)
>   TypeError: add_info() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given
>
>   During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
>
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 233, 
> in _run_hook
>       symb['add_info'](report)
>     File "/usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_mysql-8.0.py", line 
> 56, in add_info
>       for f in os.listdir(d):
>   FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
> '/etc/mysql/conf.d'
>
>  
>   ### Original Report ###
>   Tried re-installing mysql server after uninstalling
>
>   ProblemType: Package
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
>   Package: mysql-server-8.0 8.0.27-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.13.0-27.29~20.04.1-generic 5.13.19
>   Uname: Linux 5.13.0-27-generic x86_64
>   NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
>   ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.21
>   Architecture: amd64
>   CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
>   Date: Fri Jan 21 12:49:56 2022
>   ErrorMessage: installed mysql-server-8.0 package post-installation 
> script subprocess returned error exit status 1
>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-01-15 (5 days ago)
>   InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 
> (20210819)
>   Logs.var.log.daemon.log:
>
>   Logs.var.log.mysql.error.log:
>   MySQLConf.etc.mysql.my.cnf: Error: [Errno 40] Too many levels of 
> symbolic links: '/etc/mysql/my.cnf'
>   ProcCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.13.0-27-generic 
> root=UUID=ca44c4aa-b984-4c55-b9be-a12dcc4637ed ro quiet splash 
> vt.handoff=7
>   Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.8, Python 3.8.10, python3-minimal, 
> 3.8.2-0ubuntu2
>   PythonDetails: N/A
>   RelatedPackageVersions:
>    dpkg 1.19.7ubuntu3
>    apt  2.0.6
>   SourcePackage: mysql-8.0
>   Title: package mysql-server-8.0 8.0.27-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 failed to 
> install/upgrade: installed mysql-server-8.0 package post-installation 
> script subprocess returned error exit status 1
>   UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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