I am not sure if this a correct alternate way out of the never-ending- bug. This is all I found when I googled the problem. I just did not want to have an unclosed update on my 16.04.01 32-bit machine. I followed these steps and had a full mysql reinstall.
sudo rm -rf /etc/mysql /var/lib/mysql sudo apt-get purge mysql* sudo apt-get autoremove sudo apt-get autoclean sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt-get install mysql-server Now when I type, "mysql -V" I get: mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.7.13, for Linux (i686) using EditLine wrapper. And when I do an update and upgrade is all OK now. Before I used to get constantly an error messagse of failed updates or something like that. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1605490 Title: package mysql-server-5.7 5.7.13-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 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/1605490/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
