I had a look at the other bug report. I think the significance in this report is that the mysql-server package can fail to install altogether (if the installation misjudges how much memory to assign to mysql), requiring the administrator to use package management commands in order to fix.
I got this problem when trying out Juju on the LXD provider. The server had 2GB RAM, shared among the containers. The installed mysql-server package got (auto?)configured to allocate 1.6GB of memory, thus failing to start, and failing to complete the installation. This is my recollection of what happened. I had a look at the packaging of "mysql-server" and did not see any "autoconfiguration" for the memory. Therefore, it might just be Juju that configured the 1.6GB. I'll try again to install Juju and get a better picture of what is happening. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1584234 Title: mysql-server fails to install if it cannot start due to not enough memory To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.7/+bug/1584234/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
