On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 04:44:24PM -0500, stan wrote: > On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 12:49:44PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > > Do you have the mysql root password stored in /root/.my.cnf > > as detailed in /usr/share/doc/mysql-server/README.Debian? > > > > I didn't, but I do now: > > -rw------- 1 root root 91 Feb 9 16:40 .my.conf > > # an example of /root/.my.cnf > [mysql] > user = root > password = XXXXX > > > But sstill no go... > > > Setting up mysql-server (3.23.52-2) ... > 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) As a general thing, you can usually get more info about these errors by adding a 'set -x' line to /var/lib/dpkg/info/PACKAGENAME.SCRIPTNAME, which would be 'mysql-server.postinst' in thie case. Add it after the hash-bang line, but before real code starts executing. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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