Removing mysql-server does solve this problem, however it can create the following undesirable output when using apt-get:
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libdbi-perl libdbd-mysql-perl mysql-server-5.0 mysql-client-5.0 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. Obviously to the uninformed running an apt-get autoremove at this stage would be very unhelpful. I can understand why this step would be required when migrating from a truely ancient distribution such as sarge where mysql-server is a real binary package supporting MySQL 4. Perhaps the patch for the preinst script should test which version of mysql-server we're coming from and if it is less than 5 then run /etc/init.d/mysql stop, otherwise it should be a no-op? -- mysql-server preinst script stops running mysql https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
