Comment 3 for bug 1210380

There are 2 problems.

The line breaks after the ALTER TABLE statements in mysql-server-5.5.postinst are missing.

    fix_privs=`echo -e \
        "USE mysql;\n" \
        "ALTER TABLE user ADD column Create_view_priv enum('N','Y') CHARACTER SET utf8 NOT NULL DEFAULT 'N';\n" \
        "ALTER TABLE user ADD column Show_view_priv enum('N','Y') CHARACTER SET utf8 NOT NULL DEFAULT 'N';\n" \
        "ALTER TABLE user ADD column Create_routine_priv enum('N','Y') CHARACTER SET utf8 NOT NULL DEFAULT 'N';\n" \
        "ALTER TABLE user ADD column Alter_routine_priv enum('N','Y') CHARACTER SET utf8 NOT NULL DEFAULT 'N';\n" \
        "ALTER TABLE user ADD column Create_user_priv enum('N','Y') CHARACTER SET utf8 NOT NULL DEFAULT 'N';\n" \
        "ALTER TABLE user ADD column Event_priv enum('N','Y') CHARACTER SET utf8 NOT NULL DEFAULT 'N';\n" \
        "ALTER TABLE user ADD column Trigger_priv enum('N','Y') CHARACTER SET utf8 NOT NULL DEFAULT 'N'; " `

And the /etc/init/mysql.conf pre-start script does not work. You have to comment following line, to be able to mysql server again. HINT: mysqld_get_param seems to be missing.

    datadir=`mysqld_get_param datadir`
    if LC_ALL=C BLOCKSIZE= df --portability $datadir/. | tail -n 1 | awk '{ exit ($4<4096) }'; then
      echo "$0: ERROR: The partition with $datadir is too full!" >&2
      echo "ERROR: The partition with $datadir is too full!" | $ERR_LOGGER
      exit 1
    fi