Package: mysql-server Version: 5.1.61-0+squeeze1 Severity: important After the recent security upgrade to MySQL 5.1.61, MySQL failed to start during the "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" process due to incorrect permissions being set on the /var/lib/mysql/mysql-bin.* files.
Instead of being mysql:mysql they were set to root:root, causing MySQL to fail starting with errors such as: Mar 7 20:52:37 lon1 mysqld_safe[16756]: 120307 20:52:37 [ERROR] Failed to open log (file './mysql-bin.000397', errno 13) Mar 7 20:52:37 lon1 mysqld_safe[16756]: 120307 20:52:37 [ERROR] Could not open log file Mar 7 20:52:37 lon1 mysqld_safe[16756]: 120307 20:52:37 [ERROR] Can't init tc log Mar 7 20:52:37 lon1 mysqld_safe[16756]: 120307 20:52:37 [ERROR] Aborting Changing the owner/group to mysql:mysql manually and starting the "mysql" service got things working, however running update && upgrade again causes the issue again. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.18-x86_64-linode24 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages mysql-server depends on: pn mysql-server-5.1 <none> (no description available) mysql-server recommends no packages. mysql-server suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org