Public bug reported:
I just tried to install mysql-server-5.0 on a Ubuntu 7.10 server which
accidentally had wrong permissions on the /tmp directory (755, owned by
root:root). At first sight, the installations succeeds, but it ends up
with only debian-sys-maint in the user table. So, no changes to the
database are possible.
I suppose the problem is in the postinst script, which uses mktemp to
create several temporary SQL scripts in /tmp. The postinst script does
not verify if the temporary files have been created successfully. There
isn't even a warning indicating that something went wrong while
bootstrapping MySQL.
** Affects: mysql-dfsg-5.0 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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installation broken when /tmp has insufficient permissions
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/188334
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