Comparing old and new I don't think there were any changes, although
there is a 'log' entry that might not have been original.  I do not
recall seeing any prompt on this but it's possible that I missed it -
the upgrade from 8.04 to 10.0.0.4 was a long process, and a lot of it
ran overnight while I was elsewhere.  But if the dialog would have
required me to click 'OK' or whatever then I don't think that happened.
I can attach a copy of my old my.cnf if you want it.

Perhaps this is a minor issue, but two things could be done differently:
  * since 'skip_bdb' is deprecated precisely because it's no longer needed, 
this should at most generate a warning when mysql starts up.  It's odd to me 
that mysql should abort because of a configuration option that is agreeing with 
it.  But I suppose that is really up to the mysql folks.
  * IMHO the initctl mysql.conf file (or any automated script) should not have 
a potential infinite loop like this, especially with no output to tell what is 
happening.  Perhaps this could try to start a certain number of times, then 
report whatever error messages are coming from mysqladmin and/or mysqld to 
syslog or dmesg or whatever.  Then at least there would be some error output.  
To get fancy, you could have a double retry loop, spitting out a warning every 
time the outer loop goes round.

In any case it's just a bad idea to sit and spin forever with no output.
I think this is the real 'bug'.

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infinite loop in /etc/init/mysql.conf if mysqld is not running.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/551130
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