mysql upgrade error

[Phil Dobbin]

On 09/08/13 22:00, Colin Law wrote:
> On 9 August 2013 18:08, Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 09/08/13 16:52, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> take a look to https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210380
>>>
>>> CU
>>>
>>> Jörg
>>
>> Hi, Jorg.
>>
>> That explains it. Can't even reinstall. I'll have to swap the web server to
>> CentOS.
> You should not be seeing this problem unless you have -proposed
> updates enabled in Software Sources.  To see whether you have one of
> the affected versions run
> apt-cache policy mysql-server-5.5
> and very carefully check the version against those in the bug report.
>
> To sort it remove -proposed as described in the bug report.
>
> Colin
>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>       Phil...
>>
>>>
>>> Am Freitag, den 09.08.2013, 16:29 +0100 schrieb Phil Dobbin:
>>>> Hi, all.
>>>>
>>>> I ran software upgrade this morning & got this message:
>>>>
>>>> 'installing new version of config file /etc/init/mysql.conf ...
>>>> start: Job failed to start
>>>> invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
>>>> dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.5 (--configure):
>>>>     subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
>>>> status 1
>>>>     dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server:
>>>>      mysql-server depends on mysql-server-5.5; however:
>>>> Package mysql-server-5.5 is not configured          dpkg: error
>>>> processing mysql-server (--configure):           dependency problems -
>>>> leaving unconfigured                       Setting up mysql-client
>>>> (5.5.32-0ubuntu0.12.10.2) ...
>>>>
>>>> No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached'
>>>>
>>>> & subsequently mysql is not running.
>>>>
>>>> Anybody seen this problem & know of a cure?
>>>>
>>>> Any help appreciated.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
Proposed is (now was enabled) but it wasn't before I upgraded from 12.04 
-> 12.10 so how that happened I don't know.

Anyway, I removed MySQL & re-installed so all I've got to do is 
re-install OwnCloud. Luckily I have backups of everything.

Sucks though, IMO.

Thanks,

      Phil...

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