\begin{Robert Martinovic}
> 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.
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> mysql-server
>
> This is starting to get desparate. I cannot update any of my software, because apt
>doesn't get past mysql.
bah! its only mysql. rip its throat out - it'll die fairly quickly
after that:
printf "1a\nexit 0\n.\nwq\n" | \
ed /var/lib/dpkg/info/mysql-server.prerm
dpkg --purge mysql-server
otherwise, you could do it the "huh?" way:
dpkg --purge --force-reinstreq mysql-server
if the mysql-server package has been updated to fix this bug,
installing the new package should work, since it would try the prerm
from the new package. since its a segfault in one of the mysql tools,
that probably wouldn't help tho..
nothing must stand in the way of an apt-get update!
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