MYSQL update

[Hal Burgiss]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Chris Jeffries <chris at candm.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi
> I am on Hardy Heron (do not want to be a guinea pig, I want to USE
> Ubuntu rather than play with it). I just had an update of MySQL which
> failed because it could not close MySQL. I presume that was because it
> needed a password and did not have it.


It almost sounds like the mysql system user is gone missing. Do you still
have a mysql account like 'debian-sys-maint', and does it have the password
it needs? Also, have you checked syslog for a better error message?

-- 
Hal
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