Dear Robie Thanks for your email - I managed to get everything working fine by following the instructions here <https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=72722>, which is a link from ´askubuntu.com´ here <http://askubuntu.com/questions/760724/16-04-upgrade-broke-mysql-server>.
I think there is probably a bug somewhere because the upgrade to 16.04 failed the first time I tried it, before I had a chance to tinker with MySQL. The second time the install failed at the same stage, and I discovered that everything revealed by dpkg -l | grep mysql had be totally removed, many libraries and applications. At some stage MariaDB was offered instead of MySQL but that option too failed to install. Best wishes Will Jackson On 28/04/16 12:14, Robie Basak wrote: > Thank you for your report. > > This looks like a local configuration problem, rather than a bug in > Ubuntu. Specifically you appear to have deleted files in /etc/mysql, so > mysqld cannot be expected to start. > > You can find pointers to get help for this sort of problem here: > http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community > > Since we use this bug tracker to track bugs in Ubuntu, rather than > configuration problems, I'm marking this bug as Invalid. This helps us > to focus on fixing bugs in Ubuntu. > > If you believe that this is really a bug, then you may find it helpful > to read "How to report bugs effectively" > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful > if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem, > explain why you believe this is a bug in Ubuntu rather than a problem > specific to your system, and then change the bug status back to New. > > > ** Changed in: mysql-5.7 (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Invalid > ** Bug watch added: MySQL Bug System #72722 http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=72722 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575565 Title: package mysql-server-5.7 5.7.12-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.7/+bug/1575565/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
