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mysql-dfsg-5.1 package

  1. Bug #354585
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 354585

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Mathias Gug (mathiaz) wrote : Re: mysql server fails to start if existing /var/lib/mysql is not owned by mysql user

The maintainer scripts should have fixed the ownership of the /var/lib/mysql/.

According to the apt terminal log the error is:

Configurando mysql-server-5.1 (5.1.31-1ubuntu2) ...

 * Stopping MySQL database server mysqld [ OK ]

 * Starting MySQL database server mysqld [fail]

Do you still have the content of /var/log/daemon.log at the time of the upgrade to help figure out why mysqld failed to start?