Hello, I had the same issue after upgrading a box from etch to lenny. The cause of the failure is a mismatch between the english translation messages and the mysqld binary. If I run mysqld by hand I get this error:
Error message file '/usr/share/mysql/english/errmsg.sys' had only 472 error messages, but it should contain at least 475 error messages. Check that the above file is the right version for this program! The faulty version is 5.0.51a-24. The latest package from etch (version 5.0.32-7etch8) works just fine, and I had to pin it until this issue gets fixed in lenny. Regards, Cristi -- Ing. Cristi Măgherușan, System/Network Engineer Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania http://cc.utcluj.ro +40264 401247
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