Hello,
I'm not sure this is a serious bug.
I did some investigation and can confirm you can't install mysql-
server-5.1 on a running oneiric desktop livecd because you can't get job
status when running status mysql from the livecd (returns status:
unknown job mysql).
Installation works without
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 874760 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874760
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 874760
package samba 2:3.5.8~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3 failed to install/upgrade:
ErrorMessage: package samba is not ready for configuration cannot configure