I am not sure this will help anyone but i got this problem to go away via: (I cannot cut and paste my logs so you may have to fill in the middle sections)
I got the apparmor utilities and put mysql into complain only mode. ::aa-complain mysql While this did help mysql run it didnt get much farther so i tried ::mysql_safe which told me that /var/run/mysql directory did not exist. ::mkdir /var/run/mysql ::systemctl stop mysql (as it said it was running ... *shrugs* ... moving on) ::systemctl start mysql it started with out any problems -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1610765 Title: Apparmor refuses mysqld open on /etc/mysql/my.cnf.migrated causing it to fail to start To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.7/+bug/1610765/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
