Comment 5 for bug 501655

I just got this when running Update Manager.

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.10"

$ uname -a
Linux apollo 2.6.31-19-generic #56-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 28 02:39:34 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Changes for the versions:
5.1.37-1ubuntu5
5.1.37-1ubuntu5.1

Error alert said:
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server-5.1_5.1.37-1ubuntu5.1_amd64.deb: subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

details:
-- snip --
Setting up linux-generic (2.6.31.20.33) ...
Setting up linux-headers-generic (2.6.31.20.33) ...
Setting up mysql-server-core-5.1 (5.1.37-1ubuntu5.1) ...
Setting up mysql-server (5.1.37-1ubuntu5.1) ...
Setting up mysql-client-5.1 (5.1.37-1ubuntu5.1) ...

Setting up mysql-client (5.1.37-1ubuntu5.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
-- snip --

MySQL was stopped afterward. It started up again fine.

There was nothing in the MySQL log but the following was in /var/log/messages:

Feb 10 14:06:06 apollo kernel: [ 7085.890655] type=1503 audit(1265828766.543:35): operation="open" pid=9008 parent=9007 profile="/usr/sbin/mysqld" requested_mask="r::" denied_mask="r::" fsuid=0 ouid=0 name="/sys/devices/system/cpu/"
Feb 10 14:06:10 apollo kernel: [ 7090.082048] type=1503 audit(1265828770.733:36): operation="open" pid=9029 parent=9028 profile="/usr/sbin/mysqld" requested_mask="r::" denied_mask="r::" fsuid=0 ouid=0 name="/sys/devices/system/cpu/"
Feb 10 14:06:10 apollo kernel: [ 7090.174701] type=1503 audit(1265828770.823:37): operation="open" pid=9050 parent=9049 profile="/usr/sbin/mysqld" requested_mask="r::" denied_mask="r::" fsuid=0 ouid=0 name="/sys/devices/system/cpu/"