Problem installing MySQL-Server; dpkg not helpful

["Michael Heller" <mikeh@cryptonome.com>]

Hello All,

Is there anyway to get dpkg to be more specific?  It's failing, as you can
see below, but offers no clues as to why.

pux:~# apt-get -q install mysql-server
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  mysql-server
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/3549kB of archives. After unpacking 7852kB will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package mysql-server.
(Reading database ... 38613 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mysql-server (from .../mysql-server_3.23.51-1woody5_hppa.deb) ...
Setting up mysql-server (3.23.51-1woody5) ...
Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mysql-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Is there a log that I can see where exactly the post installation script
died?

Thanks in advance,

Mike