szu, Thanks. That seems to have fixed it for me.
Eric On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:51 PM, szu <szu...@poczta.onet.pl> wrote: > in my case the mysql server failed to start because of the outdated > config file, removing "skip-bdb" from /etc/mysql/my.cnf solved the > problem (this is because they removed berkeley db support in mysql) > > the daemon.log attached to this bug shows the same as mine: > Oct 6 09:59:30 asterios mysqld: 091006 9:59:30 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: > unknown option '--skip-bdb' > Oct 6 09:59:30 asterios mysqld: 091006 9:59:30 [ERROR] Aborting > > this might also apply to the other recently submitted mysqld bugs, but > most of them do not show the deamon.log files so i can't tell for sure. > > ideally, ubuntu install script should be intelligent and detect outdated > keywords in config files and show a reasonable message instead of just > "failed" :-) > > -- > package mysql-server-5.1 5.1.37-1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/444349 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- Lost South of Nowhere, East of Eden, On the Waterfront, Far From the Madding Crowd -- package mysql-server-5.1 5.1.37-1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/444349 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