Comment 2 for bug 507664

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Thanks for your report.

The relevant error is
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Setting up zabbix-server-mysql (1:1.6.4-2build1) ...
dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/zabbix-server-mysql.conf

Creating config file /etc/dbconfig-common/zabbix-server-mysql.conf with new version

Creating config file /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf with new version
granting access to database zabbix for zabbix@localhost: success.
verifying access for zabbix@localhost: success.
creating database zabbix: success.
verifying database zabbix exists: success.
populating database via sql... ^[

error encountered populating database:
mysql said: ERROR 2006 (HY000) at line 7441: MySQL server has gone away
frontend: Fatal IO error 2 (No such file or directory) on X server :0.0.
dpkg: error processing zabbix-server-mysql (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
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Looks like you've killed the upgrade process during feeding of mysql ? Did you wait long enough while the process was populating mysql ?