Comment 6 for bug 522185

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David Park (dparkmit) wrote : Re: package mysql-server-5.1 5.1.37-1ubuntu5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

I think that the bug that I reported may be different from the one that has been reported here. I tried David's solution. And it didn't work on my server. Server stopped MySQL successfully. But it didn't start MySQL for the same reasons that I outlined in my bug report above.