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

[Martin Vysny]

Thank you Mathias for quick reply. I did a simple sudo apt-get install
mysql-server (there is no X on the server machine, so no GUI package
manager). I am sure that it didn't prompt me for the password for the
first time I tried this (maybe somebody uninstalled mysql-server earlier
without purging it?). I couldn't guess the password so I tried to sudo
apt-get autoremove --purge mysql-server (which succeeded) and then sudo
apt-get install mysql-server again. This time it asked for the root
password correctly, however the installation failed with the above
error.

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old_passwords.cnf: No such file or directory
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