AFAIK and Understand the installation or upgrade script must first check for the running instance of the program, prompt for closing it or close/kill it forcibly. I used to write RPM scripts and hope that must have been done in .deb too. The issue was last time when the upgrade went ok and my MySQL tables were corrupted and I could not login to MySQL server, all my apps stopped working. Some how I managed to re install MySQL but that didnt help either and at then end some one in IRC suggested me to run "mysql_upgrade" script and restart MySQL. It helped and I did loose my data in all this.
-- package mysql-server-5.1 5.1.37-1ubuntu5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/509736 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to mysql-dfsg-5.1 in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
