Re: MySQL upgrade failed PLEASE HELP!!!

[Allan Wind <allan_wind@lifeintegrity.com>]

On 2010-03-06T20:22:01, Oscar Corte wrote:
> Error messages shown are these:
> 
> Starting MySQL database server: mysql . . . . . failed!
> invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.0 (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

<http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/is-invoke-rc.d-the-problem-671401/?s=e9411ab4a75a798bf854db454fe40961> 
perhaps?

Check the mysql log files:

less /var/log/mysql.{err.log}

Is there a mysql process running?

Try start it by mysql by hand and see if you get anything 
interesting:

/etc/init.d/mystart start


/Allan
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