[Bug 302939] Re: package mysql-server-5.0

[Jonathan Marsden]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 238755 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755

Based on:

> Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator
> chfn: PAM authentication failed
> adduser: `/usr/bin/chfn -f MySQL Server mysql' returned error code 1. Exiting.

I would say you have set up account password expiry for the mysql user and it has expired.
I would suggest you try:

    sudo passwd -u mysql

to straighten that out, and then try again.

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