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mysql-dfsg-5.0 package

  1. Bug #123427
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 123427

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Francesco Peeters (francesco-fampeeters) wrote : Re: [Bug 123427] Re: [apport] package mysql-server-5.0 failed to install/upgrade:

On Tue, July 24, 2007 01:32, Jaakan Shorter wrote:
> Jul 23 19:28:27 AMD64 mysqld_safe[16434]: started
> Jul 23 19:28:28 AMD64 mysqld[16437]: 070723 19:28:28 InnoDB: Started; log
> sequence number 0 43655
> Jul 23 19:28:28 AMD64 mysqld[16437]: 070723 19:28:28 [ERROR]
> /usr/sbin/mysqld: Incorrect information in file: './mysql/host.frm'
> Jul 23 19:28:28 AMD64 mysqld[16437]: 070723 19:28:28 [ERROR]
> /usr/sbin/mysqld: Incorrect information in file: './mysql/host.frm'
> Jul 23 19:28:28 AMD64 mysqld[16437]: 070723 19:28:28 [ERROR] Fatal error:
> Can't open and lock privilege tables: Incorrect information in file:
> './mysql/host.frm'
> Jul 23 19:28:28 AMD64 mysqld_safe[16450]: ended

Although details vary, the main part agrees with above. I too received the
privilege table error.

I cannot check any details anymore, because I needed the database to
run... So I did an 'apt-get remove --purge', then reinstalled and restored
the last backup I had of the database...

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