I was able to reproduce the issue! A customer ran mysqld-4.0.x (oldstable) on a vserver with Kernel 2.4.32 #1 Thu Jan 26 23:10:23 CET 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
Whenever we tried to update 4.0 (oldstable) -> 5.0 (stable), the postinst script would hang as described in this ticket. I solved the issue by rebuilding the mysql-server, -client and -common pakckages from the Debian stable source package on that very box. It took ages. Then I used "dpkg -i *.deb" and the upgrade went through smoothly. So, mysql seems to depend on some 2.6.x only kernel feature (epoll?), which makes it fail utterly, unless recompiled from source. -- Ralf Hildebrandt (i.A. des IT-Zentrums) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 Gemeinsame Einrichtung von FU- und HU-Berlin Fax. +49 (0)30-450 570-962 IT-Zentrum Standort CBF send no mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
