[Bug 382649] Re: package mysql-server-5.1 5.1.31-1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Brian Heup]

This is my output on trying to upgrade to 5.1 after uninstalling 5.0:
sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  bsd-mailx libmysqlclient16 mailx mysql-client-5.1 postfix
Suggested packages:
  tinyca procmail postfix-mysql postfix-pgsql postfix-ldap postfix-pcre
  sasl2-bin resolvconf postfix-cdb
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  mysql-client-5.0 mysql-server-5.0 mysql-server-core-5.0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bsd-mailx libmysqlclient16 mailx mysql-client-5.1 mysql-server-5.1 postfix
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 3 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 22.4MB of archives.
After this operation, 54.4MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe libmysqlclient16 5.1.31-1ubuntu2 [1892kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe mysql-client-5.1 5.1.31-1ubuntu2 [8628kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe mysql-server-5.1 5.1.31-1ubuntu2 [10.5MB]
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main postfix 2.5.5-1.1 [1219kB]      
Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main bsd-mailx 8.1.2-0.20081101cvs-2ubuntu1 [160kB]
Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main mailx 1:20081101-2ubuntu1 [8516B]
Fetched 22.4MB in 2min 24s (155kB/s)                                           
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 138411 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mysql-server-5.0 ...
 * Stopping MySQL database server mysqld                                 [ OK ] 
Removing mysql-client-5.0 ...
Removing mysql-server-core-5.0 ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Selecting previously deselected package libmysqlclient16.
(Reading database ... 135980 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libmysqlclient16 (from .../libmysqlclient16_5.1.31-1ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package mysql-client-5.1.
Unpacking mysql-client-5.1 (from .../mysql-client-5.1_5.1.31-1ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package mysql-server-5.1.
Unpacking mysql-server-5.1 (from .../mysql-server-5.1_5.1.31-1ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package postfix.
Unpacking postfix (from .../postfix_2.5.5-1.1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package bsd-mailx.
Unpacking bsd-mailx (from .../bsd-mailx_8.1.2-0.20081101cvs-2ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package mailx.
Unpacking mailx (from .../mailx_1%3a20081101-2ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for ufw ...
Processing triggers for doc-base ...
Processing 1 added doc-base file(s)...
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
Setting up libmysqlclient16 (5.1.31-1ubuntu2) ...

Setting up mysql-client-5.1 (5.1.31-1ubuntu2) ...

Setting up mysql-server-5.1 (5.1.31-1ubuntu2) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/mysql ...
 * Stopping MySQL database server mysqld                                 [ OK ] 
 * Starting MySQL database server mysqld                                 [fail] 
invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.1 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up postfix (2.5.5-1.1) ...
Adding group `postfix' (GID 128) ...
Done.
Adding system user `postfix' (UID 116) ...
Adding new user `postfix' (UID 116) with group `postfix' ...
Not creating home directory `/var/spool/postfix'.
Creating /etc/postfix/dynamicmaps.cf
Adding tcp map entry to /etc/postfix/dynamicmaps.cf
Adding group `postdrop' (GID 129) ...
Done.
/etc/aliases does not exist, creating it.

Postfix was not set up.  Start with 
  cp /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.debian /etc/postfix/main.cf
.  If you need to make changes, edit
/etc/postfix/main.cf (and others) as needed.  To view Postfix configuration
values, see postconf(1).

After modifying main.cf, be sure to run '/etc/init.d/postfix reload'.


Setting up bsd-mailx (8.1.2-0.20081101cvs-2ubuntu1) ...

Setting up mailx (1:20081101-2ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mysql-server-5.1
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


I do not see a line of "skip-dbd" in my.cnf to comment out.  My MySQL is now dead.

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package mysql-server-5.1 5.1.31-1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382649
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