How to purge completly a broken MySQL

[stan]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 06:14:23PM -0800, NoOp wrote:
> 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?

That is correct. Those are the errors 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)
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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