[Bug 522185] Re: package mysql-server-5.1 5.1.37-1ubuntu5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

[Fisher90]

I used the instructions that Sinquin David posted, and that seemed to
work.

There were a few files in the /var/lib/mysql that were not owned by
mysql - after doing the process, all the files were mysql mysql for
owner and group. The file I was concerned with was the debian-5.1.flag
file.

Is it possible the MySQL deamon did not have access to the flag file,
and this was causing the problem? I could not get MySQL to stop, so the
update never got very far. After the hard shutdown, clean shutdown, then
update, everything seems fine. MySQL now starts and stops normally as
well.

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package mysql-server-5.1 5.1.37-1ubuntu5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
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