Guess Launchpad was having issues temporarily. The report is now at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.7/+bug/1571764
However, I'm now less sure I know what's going on - I restored the VM state to before I ran do-release-upgrade and ran the upgrade to Xenial again, and this time it did not throw the error! Not sure what happened - maybe it's fixed already? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1570673 Title: package mysql-server-5.7 5.7.11-0ubuntu6 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-5.7/+bug/1570673/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs