How to purge completly a broken MySQL

[NoOp]

On 01/10/2009 04:49 PM, stan wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 04:06:42PM -0800, NoOp wrote:
[snip]
>> So, reinstall:
>> 
>> sudo apt-get install --reinstall mysql-server-5.0
>> 
>> and then purge it:
>> 
>> sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql-server-5.0
>> 
>> and you should be ok.
> 
> I seem to have created quite the extrodinary mess here :-(
> 
> I went through those steps, but the install after that still fails
> I don't beleive that I am getting all the remnants of this package removed.
> What procedure would do that?
> 
> Here is teh failure, if it helps:

It doesn't unless you detail what happened when you ran the two commands
above. Did you receive any errors when you ran:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall mysql-server-5.0
or are the errors below from that command?

> 
> Setting up mysql-server-5.0 (5.0.67-0ubuntu6) ...
>  * Stopping MySQL database server mysqld                                 [
>  OK ] 
>  090110 19:46:13 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't find file:
>  './mysql/user.frm' (errno: 13)
>  090110 19:46:13 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't find file:
>  './mysql/user.frm' (errno: 13)
>  ERROR: 1017  Can't find file: './mysql/user.frm' (errno: 13)
>  090110 19:46:13 [ERROR] Aborting
> 
>  090110 19:46:13 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown complete
> 
> 
>  Reloading AppArmor profiles : done.
>   * /etc/init.d/mysql: WARNING: /etc/mysql/my.cnf cannot be read. See
>   README.Debi
>   an.gz
>    * Starting MySQL database server mysqld
>    [fail] 
>    invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
>    dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.0 (--configure):
> 	subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> 	Errors were encountered while processing:
> 	 mysql-server-5.0
> 	 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>