Package: mysql-server-5.5 Version: 5.5.46-0+deb8u1 Followup-For: Bug #799433
Hello I had the same problem: After installing mysql-server-5.5 via apt-get, the MySQL start script failed to load and it took it a while to figure out that it can't start MySQL. MySQL was already running and therefore a second MySQL service couldn't be started. After killing the running MySQL service I did the same steps as Janusz: Commenting out the mentioned part in /var/lib/dpkg/info/mysql-server-5.5.postinst and calling update-rc.d and invoke-rc.d manually. update-rc.d worked but invoke-rc.d failed: invoke-rc.d mysql start [FAIL] Starting MySQL database server: mysqld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . failed! invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed. But a mysql service was running after invocation of invoke-rc.d. The syslog (/var/log/syslog) told me where the problem was: Mar 2 14:46:43 Cubietruck /etc/init.d/mysql[13977]: 1 processes alive and '/usr/bin/mysqladmin --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf ping' resulted in Mar 2 14:46:43 Cubietruck /etc/init.d/mysql[13977]: error: Found option without preceding group in config file: /etc/mysql/debian.cnf at line: 1 Mar 2 14:46:43 Cubietruck /etc/init.d/mysql[13977]: Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted The first two lines of /etc/mysql/debian.cnf: /bin/grep: /etc/mysql/debian.cnf: No such file or directory # Automatically generated for Debian scripts. DO NOT TOUCH! By commenting out the first line the problem was solved, MySQL runs fine since then: invoke-rc.d mysql start [ ok ] Starting MySQL database server: mysqld . .. [info] Checking for tables which need an upgrade, are corrupt or were not closed cleanly.. In conclusion, I think something in the automatic generation of /etc/mysql/debian.cnf went wrong and caused all this trouble. Regards Moritz Strohm -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: armhf (armv7l) Kernel: Linux 4.4.0 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=nb_NO.utf8, LC_CTYPE=nb_NO.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages mysql-server-5.5 depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.56 ii initscripts 2.88dsf-59 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1 ii libdbi-perl 1.631-3+b1 ii libgcc1 1:4.9.2-10 ii libstdc++6 4.9.2-10 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+nmu1 ii mysql-client-5.5 5.5.46-0+deb8u1 ii mysql-common 5.5.46-0+deb8u1 ii mysql-server-core-5.5 5.5.46-0+deb8u1 ii passwd 1:4.2-3 ii perl 5.20.2-3+deb8u1 ii psmisc 22.21-2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 Versions of packages mysql-server-5.5 recommends: ii libhtml-template-perl 2.95-1 Versions of packages mysql-server-5.5 suggests: pn mailx <none> pn tinyca <none> -- debconf information excluded
