apt-get error with mysql-server upgrade

[Patrick Hsieh <pahud@pahud.net>]

Hello list,

Runing apt-get upgrade, I have some packages upgraded and an error
occurred when dpkg installes mysql-server and tries to chown mysql on
/var/lib/mysql.  I mount /var/lib/mysql on an ext3 partition and it has
an ".journal" file under it, which is chowned root.root

pahud@home:/var/lib/mysql$ ls -l .journal
-rw-------    1 root     root     33554432 Dec  7 14:33 .journal


I found there's no way for root to chmod/chown the .journal file,
therefore dpkg returns an error to apt-get.

Is there any solution?
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Patrick Hsieh <pahud@pahud.net>

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