As this is a dist-upgrade, both mysql-server and mythtv-database are upgraded at the same time.
>From term.log: Preparing to replace mysql-server-5.0 5.0.22-0ubuntu6.06.2 (using .../mysql-server-5.0_5.0.24a-9_amd64.deb) ... Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld. Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld Unpacking replacement mysql-server-5.0 ... Preparing to replace mythtv-database 0.18.1-5ubuntu3 (using .../mythtv-database_0.20-0.2ubuntu2_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement mythtv-database ... ... Setting up mythtv-database (0.20-0.2ubuntu2) ... dpkg: error processing mythtv-database (--configure): ... Setting up mysql-server-5.0 (5.0.24a-9) ... * Stopping MySQL database server mysqld * Stopping MySQL database server mysqld [ ok ] * Starting MySQL database server mysqld * Starting MySQL database server mysqld [ ok ] So the problem is the order in which the two packages are set up. As mythtv-database does not depend on mysql-server, apt/dpkg sees no reason to set up mysql-server first. Basically, this change doesn't work: mythtv (0.20-0.0) unstable; urgency=low ... * mythtv-database should depends on mysql-client instead of mysql-server. -- Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:46:02 +0200 >From the last two lines of term.log you can see that mythtv-database did >actually install in the end: Setting up mythtv-database (0.20-0.2ubuntu2) ... Setting up mythtv (0.20-0.2ubuntu2) ... -- Failed to dist-upgrade mythtv-database https://launchpad.net/bugs/67696 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
