MySQL 5.0.38 installation problem

[bastijn]

Hi all,

I updated/upgraded my server yesterday. It runs on Debian Sarge.
The last time I have updated my server was about 2 weeks ago. So that aint so long ago.
While updating, Debian found the new MySQL (mysql-server-5.0.38), but during installing it doesn't complete and gets stuck. I have tried to get it to work again for about 2 hours, then a friend of mine tried, both with no result.

This is happening:
Setting up mysql-server-5.0 (5.0.38-1) ...
Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld

Then it does nothing....
So after 10 minutes i pressed ctrl + c and tried again, and again....
Then i tried apt-get remove, purge, dpkg, etc etc etc...

Can somebody please help me??

Greetz,
Bastijn

[falko]

What's in your /etc/apt/sources.list?
I guess your Sarge tried to install MySQL packages from "stable" which is now Etch. Maybe the Etch packages don't work on Sarge.

[bastijn]

This is listed in my sources.list:

# deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main

deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ testing main
deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ testing main

deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main

[kumy]

Hi all,

exactly the same problem here...

cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb ftp://mir1.ovh.net/debian/ testing main
deb-src ftp://mir1.ovh.net/debian/ testing main
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main

deb http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing etch/security-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing etch/security-updates main contrib non-free

bastijn> did you find a solution ?

Regards
Mât

[bastijn]

I am glad I'm not the only one with this problem. No I still haven't found a solution, I really don't understand what is wrong.

[falko]

Since April 8, etch isn't testing anymore. Etch is the new stable version, and lenny is now testing. That's why your systems try to download lenny packages instead of etch packages. You should replace all occurrences of testing with etch in your /etc/apt/sources.list. Run apt-get update afterwards.

[kumy]

hi,

thanks falko, that ok for mysql...

now, postfix won't start, it complain about :
postfix/master[12931]: fatal: epoll_create: Function not implemented
like here : http://bugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417530

I'll open a new post ;)

Regards

[bastijn]

This one worked for me too, thanks alot :D

Grtz,
Bastijn

[mvp]

i have the same problem with mysql, but that solution dosent help me a bit.

i replace testing with etch and run apt-get update which is fine.
then when i try to eith apt-get install mysql-server-5.0 or remove or --fix-broken it still hangs with
Setting up mysql-server-5.0 (5.0.38-1) ...
Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld

any ideas appriciated, this is very annoying

okay. after spending way too much time on this if finaly got it removed. not really sure how, tried a bunch of stuff. think it was because i deleted /var/run/mysqld and then i was able to run apt-get remove mysql-server-5.0 without any problems

[bastijn]

After replacing testing with etch you first have to purge mysql-server-5.0
Because etch can not handle the 5.0.38 version, but has the 5.0.32 version.
After purging, do apt-get install mysql-server-5.0
Then it will be fine again.

[Leszek]

Hi all,

I updated/upgraded my server yesterday. It runs on Debian Sarge.
The last time I have updated my server was about 2 weeks ago. So that aint so long ago.
While updating, Debian found the new MySQL (mysql-server-5.0.38), but during installing it doesn't complete and gets stuck. I have tried to get it to work again for about 2 hours, then a friend of mine tried, both with no result.

This is happening:
Setting up mysql-server-5.0 (5.0.38-1) ...
Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld

Then it does nothing....
So after 10 minutes i pressed ctrl + c and tried again, and again....

Hi!

It seems that my problem is similar.
Yesterday I've installed Debian Etch netinstall according to the Perfect Setup and stopped on step 10 - MySQL.Everything stops durring the configuration of the MySQL-server package.The server cannot be started or stopped.
/etc/init.d/mysql start or stop works.
My /etc/apt/sources.list contains:
#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20070407-11:29]/ etch contrib main

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20070407-11:29]/ etch contrib main

deb http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/ etch main
deb-src http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/ etch main

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib

After I finally stop it by hand (ctrl-c or z) and try to reconfigure it (apt-get reconfigure mysql-server) it complains that some file is locked and it can't reconfigure the package that I stopped.
This problem comes from time to time in some packages and I don't know how to deal with it.
Can anyone help ? Thanks in advance.

[falko]

After I finally stop it by hand (ctrl-c or z) and try to reconfigure it (apt-get reconfigure mysql-server) it complains that some file is locked and it can't reconfigure the package that I stopped.

What's the exact error message?

[Leszek]

Sorry for the delay.
Like I described earlier I see:

Setting up mysql-server-5.0 (5.0.38-1) ...
Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld . . . . . . . . . . failed

Then it does nothing....
So after 10 minutes i pressed ctrl + c.

... and saw:


Invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error while processing mysql-server-5.0 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script was killed by signal (interrupt)
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server:
mysql-server depends on mysql-server 5.0; however:
Package mysql-server 5.0 isn't configured yet.
dpkg: error while processing mysql-server (--configure):
dependency problems - left unconfigured
Errors while processing:
mysql-server-5.0
mysql-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

The above text is a translation of original error messages from Polish
It also happens after changing repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list and typing the ones from Falko's perfect setup howto.
I couldn't wait forever for it to finish but what now ?

When I type dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server I get:

/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: mysql-server is corrupt or is not fully installed.
The same with dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server-5.0

Problems like this occur from time to time with other packages.
Then when I try to dpkg-reconfigure package_name I get an error telling me that some file is locked and it couldn't be reconfigured.I can't remember the exact message now.

[falko]

That's really strange.

Problems like this occur from time to time with other packages.

In that case you should consider a clean re-install because I think you won't have much fun with the current system...

[Leszek]

Originally Posted by Leszek
Problems like this occur from time to time with other packages.

It happened a coupple of times before,even on Debian Sarge with Midnight Commander.
It's a good thing that now I can afford to reinstall.