having massive difficulty just getting rid of mysql

[Hal Burgiss]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>  on a test 10.04 system, all i want to do is remove all traces of
> mysql, then re-install to start fresh, and i'm going slowly bonkers.
> first, it took me over 1/2 hour just to remove all mysql-related
> packages, even though i saw nothing that had mysql as a dependency.
>
>  now i'm at the point where i think i've re-installed the packages i
> want, but any attempt to start the mysql server simply hangs the
> terminal i'm trying to start it in.
>
>  "ps -ef" shows that "start mysql" is running, but running "mysql -u
> root -p" says i can't connect to my mysql server.  i'm running out of
> ideas.  i would be happy to blast every trace of mysql, then
> re-install it from scratch, but i thought i did that, and it's still
> brain-damaged and refuses to start properly.
>

You didn't really say, but did you uninstall with the "purge" option
to apt? Also, have you checked syslog to see if there is a complaint
there somewhere?


-- 
Hal