Ubuntu
phpmyadmin package

error in post-installation script of dpkg

Bug #1324072 reported by Karl-Philipp Richter on 2014-05-28

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1581174: package phpmyadmin 4:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	phpmyadmin (Debian)	Unknown	Unknown	debbugs #818314
	phpmyadmin (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

As user @mushtaque pointed out in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/phpmyadmin/+bug/456674 the issue of the script failing if user 'root'@'localhost' fails to log in WITHOUT ANY feedback (see attached log), but he*she didn't open a new bug (at least I didn't find one). The failing post-installation script should handle this error and print a useful information of stdout (e.g. "login with user 'root'@'localhost' failed, please make sure you're MySQL server is configured correctly).

If the error isn't related to MySQL server (login or other issues) provide a useful output nevertheless, please :)

I exprienced this with phpmyadmin 4:4.0.10-1, apt 1.0.1ubuntu2 and dpkg 1.17.5 on Ubuntu 14.04.

See original description