I could not backup the database with the instructions given.
Eventually on the advise of a friend I moved the database:
sudo mv /var/lib/mysql /var/lib/mysql.corrupted
after doing:
sudo apt-get purge mysql-server-5.1
then I was able to reinstall the server:
sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.1
Now MySQL server is working perfectly but I do not have access to my old
database. Not too bad as I had no precious data in it. Even at that
would do backup of "non-precious" data as you never know when the
unexpected may happen.
Thanks a lot for the assistance.
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package mysql-server-5.1 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.3 failed to install/upgrade:
subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/617678
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