I'm not game to try this, as the file seems pretty cryptic to me.
I have tried this:
incursion:/home/rob# dpkg -r --force-confold mysql-server
dpkg: error processing mysql-server (--remove):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
Error
ok basically when you remove any debian package theres a script called
prerm that gets run. In this case it's probably trying to shutdown the
database or something. But for some reason it's seg faulting which is
not a good sign ( Is this the bit where I get to bag out mysql and carry
on about pos
Hello all,
I have tried to remove mysql-server, but dpkg said
that there was an error, and i should reinstall it,
then try again to remove it. When I do, i get:
(Reading database ... 44897 files and directories
currently installed.)
Preparing to replace mysql-server 3.23.25-4 (using
.../mysql-se
