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mysql-dfsg-5.1 package

  1. Bug #551130
  2. Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 551130

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m2nis (m-ubuntu) wrote : Re: infinite loop in /etc/init/mysql.conf if mysqld is not running.

I will try to describe all what I have find on this problem which start with the upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04.

First (I forgot how the problem began...), I remove mysql-server :

$ sudo apt-get remove mysql-server --purge
$ sudo apt-get autoremove
$ sudo apt-get autoclean
and I also remove the directories /etc/mysql, /var/lib/mysqld, /var/run/mysqld, /var/log/mysql

reboot

then reinstall of the package mysql-server. This install gives me the error (it's a translation) "Unable to change the password for user 'root' of mysql".

Then :

$ sudo service mysql start
start: Job failed to start

If I copy the my.cnf which is missing, the "service start" gives me an infinite loop. But the line :

$ sudo su - mysql service mysql start

works. But if I try to connect :

$ mysql
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)

That's the main informations I have.