Ubuntu
mysql-dfsg-5.0 package

  1. Bug #153868
  2. Comment #27

Comment 27 for bug 153868

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Steve Riddett (tmb-steve) wrote : Re: package mysql-server-5.0 5.0.45-1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade - Access denied for user 'debian-sys-maint'@'localhost'

I got this bug and was directed here. For the record, I think it occured for me because I had created the database from a complete mysqldump of all databases - *including the mysql database* - from another machine.

So the password for debian-sys-maint would have been set for the other machine rather than the one it was actually running on.

Changing the password as per the instructions above worked for me.

I don't think this is really a distro error.