Comment 5 for bug 316957

Hi,

I am still getting this bug as of 17/01/2009.

My workaround is to install Amarok. Install fails with MySQL 5.1 start error.

From the my command-line:

shaun@kubuntu:~$ sudo mysqld
mysqld: Table 'mysql.plugin' doesn't exist
090117 22:24:56 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it.
090117 22:24:57 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 46409
090117 22:24:57 [ERROR] mysqld: unknown option '--skip-bdb'
090117 22:24:57 [ERROR] Aborting

090117 22:24:57 InnoDB: Starting shutdown...
090117 22:24:58 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 0 46409
090117 22:24:58 [Note] mysqld: Shutdown complete

I then edit /etc/mysql/my.cnf and comment out the line:
skip-bdb

I then get the error:

shaun@kubuntu:~$ sudo mysqld
mysqld: Table 'mysql.plugin' doesn't exist
090117 22:26:07 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it.
090117 22:26:07 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 46409
090117 22:26:07 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist

If I now install a package (any package) and apt fixes the MySQL problem (I dont know how exactly) and all is well.

Hope this helps,
Shaun