I was having a problem with slimserver updating my library correctly (it kept reverting to an earlier status), so I deleted mysql-server-5.0 using: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc$ sudo dpkg --purge mysql-server-5.0
Poor. Life. Decision. I now get the titular error whenever I try to reinstall. I've tried to touch /etc/mysql/conf.d/old_passwords.cnf thinking that, "Perhaps a blank file will work!", but I get: touch: cannot touch `/etc/mysql/conf.d/old_passwords.cnf': No such file or directory =( It's a mysql error which I hope someone here has encountered. I searched the mysql forums with no luck. The ubuntu forms have some identical instances with no resolution. -- http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-534530.html -- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=424705 I have an independent /home partition, so worst case, I have to reinstall, but I use mysql a good bit, and would hate to see this issue go unsolved. Thanks for taking a look~ dac Below is what happens if I try to install slimserver. (pkgs are already downloaded; have purged first and tried with same result.) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc$ sudo apt-get install slimserver Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done slimserver is already the newest version. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: liburi-find-perl libtie-regexphash-perl libpath-class-perl libio-string-perl libmpeg-audio-frame-perl libdata-page-perl libdbix-contextualfetch-perl libxml-libxml-common-perl libyaml-syck-perl libtext-unidecode-perl libipc-sharelite-perl libnet-ssleay-perl libtest-exception-perl libxml-namespacesupport-perl libclass-whitehole-perl libfilter-perl libclass-accessor-perl libtie-llhash-perl libcgi-perl libtext-glob-perl libclass-trigger-perl libclass-accessor-chained-perl libdata-dump-perl libcache-cache-perl libclass-inspector-perl libclass-data-accessor-perl libclass-c3-perl libexporter-lite-perl libboost-thread1.34.1 libcarp-assert-perl liberror-perl libcarp-clan-perl libtemplate-perl libdbix-class-perl libboost-date-time1.34.1 libyaml-perl libossp-uuid-perl libgd2-noxpm libxml-xspf-perl libdbix-migration-perl libossp-uuid15 libuniversal-require-perl libdata-vstring-perl libtie-cache-lru-perl libpoe-perl libima-dbi-perl libtime-modules-perl libreadonly-perl libsql-abstract-perl libmodule-find-perl libfile-which-perl libio-stringy-perl libxml-libxml-perl libappconfig-perl libtie-cache-perl libxml-sax-perl libnet-ip-perl libfile-bom-perl libnet-dns-perl libtimedate-perl libfile-find-rule-perl libfile-slurp-perl libenum-perl libuniversal-exports-perl libxml-simple-perl libxml-writer-perl libsql-abstract-limit-perl libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl libclass-virtual-perl libclass-data-inheritable-perl libproc-background-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libtie-cache-lru-expires-perl libdigest-hmac-perl libsub-uplevel-perl gnash-common libnet-upnp-perl libclass-singleton-perl libnumber-compare-perl libmp4-info-perl libalgorithm-c3-perl libuniversal-moniker-perl libdigest-sha1-perl Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up mysql-server-5.0 (5.0.45-1ubuntu3) ... * Stopping MySQL database server mysqld [ OK ] /var/lib/dpkg/info/mysql-server-5.0.postinst: line 143: /etc/mysql/conf.d/old_passwords.cnf: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.0 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of slimserver: slimserver depends on mysql-server-4.1 | mysql-server-5.0; however: Package mysql-server-4.1 is not installed. Package mysql-server-5.0 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing slimserver (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: mysql-server-5.0 slimserver E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- dac413 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dac413's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14287 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40827 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
