[Bug 330982] Re: old_passwords.cnf: No such file or directory

[Martin Vysny]

Okay, fix proposed by http://ohioloco.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=626443 worked. It was necessary to purge mysql-common (if you have a package which depends on mysql-common then just sudo dpkg --purge --force-depends mysql-common; sudo apt-get install -f . In my case, it was proftpd).
How to simulate the bug (probably): install proftpd, then install mysql-server (it shouldn't prompt for a password), then purge mysql-server and try to install it again.

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old_passwords.cnf: No such file or directory
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