[Bug 444349] Re: package mysql-server-5.1 5.1.37-1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Eric Speas eric.speas at gmail.com
Mon Mar 1 16:31:20 GMT 2010


szu,

Thanks.  That seems to have fixed it for me.

Eric

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:51 PM, szu <szulat at poczta.onet.pl> wrote:

> in my case the mysql server failed to start because of the outdated
> config file, removing "skip-bdb" from /etc/mysql/my.cnf solved the
> problem (this is because they removed berkeley db support in mysql)
>
> the daemon.log attached to this bug shows the same as mine:
> Oct  6 09:59:30 asterios mysqld: 091006  9:59:30 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld:
> unknown option '--skip-bdb'
> Oct  6 09:59:30 asterios mysqld: 091006  9:59:30 [ERROR] Aborting
>
> this might also apply to the other recently submitted mysqld bugs, but
> most of them do not show the deamon.log files so i can't tell for sure.
>
> ideally, ubuntu install script should be intelligent and detect outdated
> keywords in config files and show a reasonable message instead of just
> "failed" :-)
>
> --
> package mysql-server-5.1 5.1.37-1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade:
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/444349
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