Re: Installing mysqldump

["Ethan Rosenberg, PhD" <erosenberg@hygeiabiomedical.com>]

Ethan,

I see that you are using Thunderbird.  A lot of people do.  But why
are your messages always broken?  You never reply to the message you
are quoting and seem to be replying to but the message before it.
Strange.  And your quoting is really painful.  I am sure it is not a
problem with Thunderbird since other people use it successfully.

Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
> env COLUMNS=80 dpkg -l | grep mysql-server

I had asked for the 'env COLUMNS=80 dpkg -l' so that the columns would
not go out too far and would not be hard to read.

> iU  mysql-server                          5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1 all          MySQL database server (metapackage depending on the latest version)
> rc  mysql-server-5.1                      5.1.66-0+squeeze1     i386         MySQL database server binaries and system database setup
> iF  mysql-server-5.5                      5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1 i386         MySQL database server binaries and system database setup
> ii  mysql-server-core-5.5                 5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1 i386         MySQL database server binaries

But yours go out to column 144 so of course I know you didn't use the
command I asked you to use.  Sigh.

And the above clearly shows the problem.  I will chop it down.

  Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
  | 
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
  |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
  ||/ Name           Version        Description

+++-==============-==============-============================================
  iU  mysql-server            5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1
  rc  mysql-server-5.1        5.1.66-0+squeeze1
  iF  mysql-server-5.5        5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1
  ii  mysql-server-core-5.5   5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1

mysql-server is Unpacked but not configured.  mysql-server-5.5 install
is marked as Failed.  That is clearly bad.  You can't ignore these
errors.

I would try this first.  Needs root.

  apt-get install -f

That should rerun the configuration of the failed packages.  Since it
produced errors before it will probably produce errors again.  Post
those errors.  They need to be fixed.

After you get the new mysql server installed correctly then, and only
then, purge the previous server.  Doing so will have the side effect
of shutting down the server so it needs to be started again.  But
don't do it until you have the new server installed correctly.

  dpkg --purge mysql-server-5.1
  service mysql start

Bob
===============

Bob -

Thanks.

Here is the output from apt-get install -f

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Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up mysql-server-5.5 (5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1) ...
[?1049h[?25l(B 

         
                        
                                       
                                                      

 
               
                              
                                             
                                                            

       
                       
                                       
                                                       

 
                
                                
                                                
                                                                

         
                         
                                         
                                                         

    
                    
[?25l[?12l[?25h(BPackage 
configuration┌────────────────────┤ Configuring 
mysql-server-5.5 ├─────────────────────┐│ While not 
mandatory, it is highly recommended that you set a password 
│ (B│ for the MySQL administrative 
"root" user.                               │ 
(B│ 
                        │ (B│ If 
this field is left blank, the password will not be changed. 
   │ (B│ 
                                             │ 
(B│ New password for the MySQL "root" user: 
                         │ (B│ 

  │ (B│ 
_______________________________________________________________________ 
│ (B│ 
                                         │ 
(B│                                 <Ok> 
                         │ (B│ 

  │ 
(B└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ 
 
          [?25l[?12l[?25h(B(B

[?1049l[....] Stopping MySQL database server: 
mysqld[?25l7[ ok 8[?12l[?25h.
[....] Starting MySQL database server: mysqld . . . . . 
. . . . . . . .y .[?25l7[FAIL8[?12l[?25h 
failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.5 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server:
 mysql-server depends on mysql-server-5.5; however:
  Package mysql-server-5.5 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing mysql-server (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mysql-server-5.5
 mysql-server

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Also, please indicate the errors in my Thunderbird email.  I will 
address them.

TIA

Ethan

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