mysql upgrade error

[Colin Law]

On 10 August 2013 14:42, Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/08/13 14:07, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 10 August 2013 13:56, Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 10/08/13 13:27, Colin Law wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 10 August 2013 11:24, Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> ...
>>>>> By the way, I managed to re-install MySQL so I just need to re-install
>>>>> OwnCloud & it's back to business.
>>>>
>>>> Why did you need to re-install?  Could you not just revert to the
>>>> previous version?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Well, OwnCloud needed upgrading & I have backups so I thought I'd start
>>> with
>>> a clean slate.
>>>
>>> As a matter of interest, how would I have reverted?
>>
>> First disable updates from proposed in your software sources (you have
>> done that I hope, otherwise you will get the problem again).  Then I
>> /think/ that just
>> sudo apt-get install mysql-server
>> would have done it, though not completely certain.
>
> Thanks, Colin.
>
> That's what I've done but OwnCloud is still broken. I'll just re-install it
> & restore from backups.

The original problem was an issue when trying to upgrade
msysql-server.  I am not sure what that has to do with OwnCloud.

Colin