Hello,
I have for hours attempted to install Mysql in Ubuntu 12.04 last night and had no luck. Unfortunately I have no record of the exact error message I got, but I found attached log output on the net, and as far as I remember, this is as close as it gets to my problem, in particular the messages about innodb, invoke-rc.d etc ...
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apt-get install mysql-server
The installation aborts with the following error:
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libdbd-mysql-perl{a} libmysqlclient18{a} mysql-client mysql-client-5.5{a}
mysql-client-core-5.5{a} mysql-common{a} mysql-server mysql-server-5.5{a}
mysql-server-core-5.5{a}
0 packages upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package mysql-common.
(Reading database ... 54008 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mysql-common (from .../mysql-common_5.5.22-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libmysqlclient18.
Unpacking libmysqlclient18 (from .../libmysqlclient18_5.5.22-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libdbd-mysql-perl.
Unpacking libdbd-mysql-perl (from .../libdbd-mysql-perl_4.020-1build2_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package mysql-client-core-5.5.
Unpacking mysql-client-core-5.5 (from .../mysql-client-core-5.5_5.5.22-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package mysql-client-5.5.
Unpacking mysql-client-5.5 (from .../mysql-client-5.5_5.5.22-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package mysql-server-core-5.5.
Unpacking mysql-server-core-5.5 (from .../mysql-server-core-5.5_5.5.22-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up mysql-common (5.5.22-0ubuntu1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package mysql-server-5.5.
(Reading database ... 54189 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mysql-server-5.5 (from .../mysql-server-5.5_5.5.22-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package mysql-client.
Unpacking mysql-client (from .../mysql-client_5.5.22-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package mysql-server.
Unpacking mysql-server (from .../mysql-server_5.5.22-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up libmysqlclient18 (5.5.22-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libdbd-mysql-perl (4.020-1build2) ...
Setting up mysql-client-core-5.5 (5.5.22-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up mysql-client-5.5 (5.5.22-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up mysql-server-core-5.5 (5.5.22-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up mysql-server-5.5 (5.5.22-0ubuntu1) ...
120502 10:17:41 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
120502 10:17:41 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
120502 10:17:41 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins
120502 10:17:41 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3.4
120502 10:17:41 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
120502 10:17:41 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
120502 10:17:41 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda.
120502 10:17:41 InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start
120502 10:17:42 InnoDB: 1.1.8 started; log sequence number 1595675
120502 10:17:42 InnoDB: Starting shutdown...
120502 10:17:42 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 1595675
start: Job failed to start
invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.5 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Setting up mysql-client (5.5.22-0ubuntu1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server:
mysql-server depends on mysql-server-5.5; however:
Package mysql-server-5.5 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Errors were encountered while processing:
mysql-server-5.5
mysql-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up mysql-server-5.5 (5.5.22-0ubuntu1) ...
start: Job failed to start
invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.5 (--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-5.5; however:
Package mysql-server-5.5 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
mysql-server-5.5
mysql-server
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I have tried everything up and down all the forums I could find to install, i.e.
sudo apt-get clean, autoclean, autoremove, purge, dpkg reconfigure, editing the my.cnf file etc, restarting the complete machine, in all variations and permutations. None worked, and quite a few people seem to have had the same problem. I finally got it to work, and I do not know why, but in case this might be helpful to someone, here is what I did to get it to work (pure trial and error, and admittedly completely senseless, but it works, so I do not really care):
downloaded deb packages from the mysql site. then
sudo apt-get purge mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common mysql-client-5.5 mysql-server-5.5
sudo dpkg -i mysql-5.6.9-rc-debian6.0-i686.deb
sudo dpkg -i mysql-5.5.29-debian6.0-i686.deb
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
and after the last step (and only after the last step) I had my mysql server up and running. i assume, the deb files install something right, that the apt-get installation then does not overwrite and uses. no idea, really.
if this helps 1 single person, great. just thought i share yet one more anecdotical solution to this obnoxious problem.
greetings
ingo