A first step would be to give a more helpful error message than «It didn't work». Running mysqld --verbose --help 2>&1 > /dev/null can let us detect errors without starting up the database fully:
lars@lars-xenial2:~/git/mysql-5.7$ mysqld --verbose --help 2>&1 > /dev/null 2016-04-15T05:19:25.553086Z 0 [ERROR] unknown variable 'myisam-recover=BACKUP' 2016-04-15T05:19:25.555137Z 0 [ERROR] Aborting So if that command fails we can abort early and pass on the error -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1567884 Title: package mysql-server-5.7 5.7.11-0ubuntu5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.7/+bug/1567884/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
