[Bug 615869] [NEW] Infinite loop upgrading to 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.6

[jgreenso]

Public bug reported:

If MySQL is not startable, the package cannot continue. History...

Performed a dist-upgrade on a Lucid box installed a few weeks ago.

The dist-upgrade became stuck:
Setting up libmysqlclient16 (5.1.41-3ubuntu12.6) ...

Setting up mysql-client-core-5.1 (5.1.41-3ubuntu12.6) ...
Setting up mysql-client-5.1 (5.1.41-3ubuntu12.6) ...
Setting up mysql-server-core-5.1 (5.1.41-3ubuntu12.6) ...
Setting up mysql-server-5.1 (5.1.41-3ubuntu12.6) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init/mysql.conf ...

Looking at vmstat in another shell it was doing nothing, 100% idle.

Looking at ps:

jamesg at sutton:~$ ps ax | grep mysql
 3665 pts/1    S+     0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/mysql-server-5.1.postinst configure 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.3
 3675 pts/1    S+     0:00 /bin/bash -e /var/lib/dpkg/info/mysql-server-5.1.postinst configure 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.3
 3779 pts/1    S+     0:00 start mysql
 5962 pts/2    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto mysql
31891 pts/1    Ss+    0:00 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 24 --configure linux-image-2.6.32-24-generic libmysqlclient16 mysql-client-core-5.1 mysql-client-5.1 mysql-server-core-5.1 mysql-server-5.1 mysql-server apt-utils ureadahead libusb-0.1-4 apt-transport-https libkrb5support0 libk5crypto3 libkrb5-3 libgssapi-krb5-2 libldap-2.4-2 python-apt update-manager-core w3m libfreetype6 grub-common grub-pc hunspell-en-ca linux-image-generic linux-generic linux-headers-2.6.32-24 linux-headers-2.6.32-24-generic linux-headers-generic myspell-en-gb myspell-en-za openvpn

Figured I'd kill pid 3675 which did indeed complete the dist-upgrade.

Seems I had left MySQL in an un-startable state (Innodb unhappy with the
log file sizes being changed, they needed to be removed).

This should not however cause a dist-upgrade to hang!

** Affects: mysql-dfsg-5.1 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Infinite loop upgrading to 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.6
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/615869
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