Comment 24 for bug 444349
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| szu (szulat) wrote Re: package mysql-server-5.1 5.1.37-1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 | #24 |
in my case the mysql server failed to start because of the outdated config file, removing "skip-bdb" from /etc/mysql/my.cnf solved the problem (this is because they removed berkeley db support in mysql)
the daemon.log attached to this bug shows the same as mine:
Oct 6 09:59:30 asterios mysqld: 091006 9:59:30 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: unknown option '--skip-bdb'
Oct 6 09:59:30 asterios mysqld: 091006 9:59:30 [ERROR] Aborting
this might also apply to the other recently submitted mysqld bugs, but most of them do not show the deamon.log files so i can't tell for sure.
ideally, ubuntu install script should be intelligent and detect outdated keywords in config files and show a reasonable message instead of just "failed" :-)