Hello all, I've experienced this problem today. I'm feeling lazy, so I'll let you observe: thor:/var/log$ uname -a Linux thor 2.6.24-23-generic #1 SMP Mon Jan 26 00:13:11 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux thor:~$ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 8.04.2 \n \l thor:~$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl mysql-client-5.0 mysql-server-5.0 Suggested packages: dbishell mysql-doc-5.0 tinyca Recommended packages: libhtml-template-perl mailx The following NEW packages will be installed: libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl mysql-client mysql-client-5.0 mysql-server mysql-server-5.0 0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 36.3MB of archives. After this operation, 108MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main libnet-daemon-perl 0.38-1.1 [45.9kB] Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main libplrpc-perl 0.2017-1.1 [35.0kB] Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main libdbi-perl 1.601-1 [771kB] Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main libdbd-mysql-perl 4.005-1 [134kB] Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main mysql-client-5.0 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4 [7826kB] Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main mysql-server-5.0 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4 [27.4MB] Get:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main mysql-client 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4 [52.1kB] Get:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main mysql-server 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4 [54.2kB] Fetched 36.3MB in 1min2s (586kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package libnet-daemon-perl. (Reading database ... 147205 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libnet-daemon-perl (from .../libnet-daemon-perl_0.38-1.1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libplrpc-perl. Unpacking libplrpc-perl (from .../libplrpc-perl_0.2017-1.1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libdbi-perl. Unpacking libdbi-perl (from .../libdbi-perl_1.601-1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libdbd-mysql-perl. Unpacking libdbd-mysql-perl (from .../libdbd-mysql-perl_4.005-1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package mysql-client-5.0. Unpacking mysql-client-5.0 (from .../mysql-client-5.0_5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package mysql-server-5.0. Unpacking mysql-server-5.0 (from .../mysql-server-5.0_5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package mysql-client. Unpacking mysql-client (from .../mysql-client_5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package mysql-server. Unpacking mysql-server (from .../mysql-server_5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4_all.deb) ... Setting up libnet-daemon-perl (0.38-1.1) ... Setting up libplrpc-perl (0.2017-1.1) ... Setting up libdbi-perl (1.601-1) ... Setting up libdbd-mysql-perl (4.005-1) ... Setting up mysql-client-5.0 (5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4) ... Setting up mysql-server-5.0 (5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4) ... * Stopping MySQL database server mysqld ...done. Reloading AppArmor profiles : done. * Starting MySQL database server mysqld ...done. * Checking for corrupt, not cleanly closed and upgrade needing tables. Setting up mysql-client (5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4) ... Setting up mysql-server (5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4) ... thor:~$ mysql -p -u root Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 11 Server version: 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4 (Ubuntu) Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer. mysql> create database amarok; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) mysql> use amarok; Database changed mysql> grant all on amarok.* to amarok@localhost identified by 'xxxxxxxx'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> exit; Bye thor:~$ top top - 18:36:57 up 54 min, 1 user, load average: 1.07, 0.88, 0.51 Tasks: 136 total, 3 running, 133 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 26.0%us, 74.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 3622324k total, 1330412k used, 2291912k free, 34860k buffers Swap: 9004392k total, 0k used, 9004392k free, 830804k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 9661 root 20 0 1772 528 440 S 99 0.0 7:12.71 mysqld_safe thor:~$ iostat -x 1 Linux 2.6.24-23-generic (thor) 04/01/2009 avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 14.50 0.00 36.00 0.00 0.00 49.50 Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util sda 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 sdb 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 thor:/var/log$ ls -l /var/log/mysql* -rw-r----- 1 mysql adm 0 2009-04-01 18:25 /var/log/mysql.err -rw-r----- 1 mysql adm 0 2009-04-01 18:25 /var/log/mysql.log /var/log/mysql: total 0 Thanks, Brett