Re: Mysql fails to install after "aptitude purge mysql-server --purge-unused"
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 18:34:53 -0700, S D wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For some reason mysql fails to install after running "aptitude purge
> mysql-server --purge-unused". I want a clean, fresh mysql installation
> and don't care about what happens to the old mysql data/config
> files/etc. It appears the install scrip is looking for the old
> "/etc/mysql/conf.d/old_passwords.cnf" and fails since it doesn't
> exist.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks
>
> # uname -a
> Linux testsrv 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:11:31 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> # aptitude purge mysql-server --purge-unused
[...]
> The following packages have been kept back:
> postfix postfix-doc
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> Writing extended state information... Done
>
> # aptitude install mysql-server
[...]
> The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
> libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl mysql-client-5.0 mysql-server-5.0
> The following packages have been kept back:
> postfix postfix-doc
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl mysql-client-5.0 mysql-server mysql-server-5.0
> 0 packages upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
[...]
> Setting up mysql-server-5.0 (5.0.32-7etch5) ...
> Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld.
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/mysql-server-5.0.postinst: line 143: /etc/mysql/conf.d/old_passwords.cnf: No such file or directory
> dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.0 (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
That line in the script reads:
echo -e "# created by debconf\n[mysqld]\nold_passwords = $RET" > /etc/mysql/conf.d/old_passwords.cnf
This does not seem to require that old_passwords.cnf exists beforehand.
Is there still enough space on all the relevant partitions, does the
/etc/mysql/conf.d/ directory exist?
Can you do this:
touch /etc/mysql/conf.d/old_passwords.cnf
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