I have just encountered this problem with 12.04 and have tried every "fix" I can find withour sucess.
I am collecting a lot of errors in the mysql error.log 130506 16:59:00 [ERROR] Incorrect definition of table mysql.proc: expected column 'comment' at position 15 to have type text, found type char(64). ERROR: 1136 Column count doesn't match value count at row 1 130506 16:59:01 [ERROR] Aborting Mysql suggests "Due to these changes, the server requires that a new grant table, proxies_priv, be present in the mysql database. If you are upgrading to MySQL 5.5.7 from a previous MySQL release rather than performing a new installation, the server will find that this table is missing and exit during startup with the following message: Table 'mysql.proxies_priv' doesn't exist To create the proxies_priv table, start the server with the --skip- grant-tables option to cause it to skip the normal grant table checks, then run mysql_upgrade." #mysql --skip-grant-tables Appears to run but #mysql_upgrade Fails Looking for 'mysql' as: mysql Looking for 'mysqlcheck' as: mysqlcheck Running 'mysqlcheck' with connection arguments: '--port=3306' '--socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' mysqlcheck: Got error: 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) when trying to connect FATAL ERROR: Upgrade failed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/973951 Title: package mysql-server-5.5 5.5.22-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.5/+bug/973951/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
