Comment 1 for bug 538178

Here is the output from when I run sudo apt-get upgrade:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  bind9-host dnsutils libbind9-50 libdns50 libgssapi-krb5-2 libgssrpc4 libisc50 libisccc50 libisccfg50 libk5crypto3 libkadm5srv6 libkrb5-3 libkrb5-dev libkrb5support0 liblwres50 linux-ec2 linux-image-ec2 linux-image-virtual linux-virtual
The following packages will be upgraded:
  apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-bin apache2.2-common dpkg dpkg-dev tzdata
8 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 5,136kB of archives.
After this operation, 65.5kB disk space will be freed.
Get:1 http://us.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main dpkg 1.15.4ubuntu2.1 [2,126kB]
Get:2 http://us.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main tzdata 2010e-0ubuntu0.9.10 [683kB]
Get:3 http://us.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main apache2 2.2.12-1ubuntu2.2 [1,426B]
Get:4 http://us.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main apache2-mpm-prefork 2.2.12-1ubuntu2.2 [2,376B]
Get:5 http://us.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main apache2.2-common 2.2.12-1ubuntu2.2 [285kB]
Get:6 http://us.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main apache2.2-bin 2.2.12-1ubuntu2.2 [1,309kB]
Get:7 http://us.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main apache2-utils 2.2.12-1ubuntu2.2 [155kB]
Get:8 http://us.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main dpkg-dev 1.15.4ubuntu2.1 [573kB]
Fetched 5,136kB in 0s (16.4MB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 32789 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace dpkg 1.15.4ubuntu2 (using .../dpkg_1.15.4ubuntu2.1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement dpkg ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up dpkg (1.15.4ubuntu2.1) ...

(Reading database ... 32789 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace tzdata 2009u-0ubuntu0.9.10 (using .../tzdata_2010e-0ubuntu0.9.10_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement tzdata ...
Setting up tzdata (2010e-0ubuntu0.9.10) ...

Current default time zone: 'America/New_York'
Local time is now: Fri Mar 12 12:57:25 EST 2010.
Universal Time is now: Fri Mar 12 17:57:25 UTC 2010.
Run 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' if you wish to change it.

(Reading database ... 32798 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace apache2 2.2.12-1ubuntu2.1 (using .../apache2_2.2.12-1ubuntu2.2_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement apache2 ...
Preparing to replace apache2-mpm-prefork 2.2.12-1ubuntu2.1 (using .../apache2-mpm-prefork_2.2.12-1ubuntu2.2_all.deb) ...
 * Stopping web server htcacheclean
 ... waiting ...done.
Unpacking replacement apache2-mpm-prefork ...
Preparing to replace apache2.2-common 2.2.12-1ubuntu2.1 (using .../apache2.2-common_2.2.12-1ubuntu2.2_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement apache2.2-common ...
Preparing to replace apache2.2-bin 2.2.12-1ubuntu2.1 (using .../apache2.2-bin_2.2.12-1ubuntu2.2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement apache2.2-bin ...
Preparing to replace apache2-utils 2.2.12-1ubuntu2.1 (using .../apache2-utils_2.2.12-1ubuntu2.2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement apache2-utils ...
Preparing to replace dpkg-dev 1.15.4ubuntu2 (using .../dpkg-dev_1.15.4ubuntu2.1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement dpkg-dev ...
Processing triggers for ufw ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up mysql-server-5.1 (5.1.37-1ubuntu5.1) ...
 * Stopping MySQL database server mysqld
   ...done.
 * Starting MySQL database server mysqld
   ...fail!
invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.1 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server:
 mysql-server depends on mysql-server-5.1; however:
  Package mysql-server-5.1 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up apache2.2-bin (2.2.12-1ubuntu2.2) ...
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                          Setting up apache2-utils (2.2.12-1ubuntu2.2) ...
Setting up apache2.2-common (2.2.12-1ubuntu2.2) ...

Setting up apache2-mpm-prefork (2.2.12-1ubuntu2.2) ...
 * Starting web server apache2
   ...done.

Setting up apache2 (2.2.12-1ubuntu2.2) ...

Setting up dpkg-dev (1.15.4ubuntu2.1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mysql-server-5.1
 mysql-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)