Comments on: MySQL 5.1.41 is available for Debian “Lenny” and “Etch”

By: jdelmour

jdelmour — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:54:17 +0000

it was our fault! a stuff changed source.lst from packages.dotdeb to php5.3.dotdeb… :/
installs fine

By: jdelmour

jdelmour — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:33:59 +0000

Hi Guillaume,

“aptitude search mysql-server” on lenny shows only 5.0. Yes, your sources are into sources.lst, and get a hit on aptitude update.

what do i wrong?

thanks!

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:12:05 +0000

I can confirm that it’s a good idea to use the maintainer’s my.cnf.

Took a whole lot of futzing to get apt to offer to replace my.cnf that second time. No problem from there.

By: Norio

Norio — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:06:07 +0000

Thanks for the lightning-fast support! It (commenting out skip-bdb) worked perfectly. I love you man

By: Guillaume Plessis

Guillaume Plessis — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:53:25 +0000

@Norio : try to use the maintainer’s /etc/mysql/my.cnf while upgrading or comment “skip-bdb” in your existing configuration file.
Then check that no mysql_safe or mysqld processes are running and launch “/etc/init.d/mysql start”.
If errors occur, they should be reported in /var/log/syslog. If not, edit /etc/init.d/mysql and put some breakpoints in it to see where the script hangs.

By: Norio

Norio — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:49:59 +0000

I just upgraded from Lenny’s 5.0 to dotdeb’s 5.1 and MySQL won’t start now. syslog doesn’t show any reason for it. The init.d script just sort of hangs while trying to start the server. Help!?

By: Laura H

Laura H — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:41:26 +0000

I hate to break it to you, Siggma, but I do have the same issue with mysql-server-5.0_5.0.67-0ubuntu6_i386.deb on Ubuntu.

It’s almost definitely not the package; it’s something in our systems.

By: siggma

siggma — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:58:53 +0000

The package never installed so there is no /etc/init.d/mysql. The only notice is a user abort notice when I abort the installation.

DPKG hangs running the pre-install script(s) so I think I have a messed up system somewhere.

I was hoping someone else had this issue and some advice but I don’t think it’s your package.

Thanks

By: Guillaume Plessis

Guillaume Plessis — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:36:39 +0000

@siggma : Could you please check the content of /var/log/syslog? Any error while summoning /etc/init.d/mysql will be reported there.

By: siggma

siggma — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:49:41 +0000

RE: Debian 5.03 Lenny
http://www.trbailey.net/phpsysinfo

I seem to have an odd issue installing mysql-server-5.1. Both apt-get and dpkg hang forever while unpacking the .deb file. The .deb unpacks fine using ar. It may not be a dotdeb specific issue since mysql-5.1 is available in lenny backports and the same thing happens when trying to install from there as well.

Relevant output:

~ $ aptitude install mysql-server-5.1
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states… Done
Writing extended state information… Done
Reading task descriptions… Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
mysql-client-5.1{a} mysql-server-5.1
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libterm-readkey-perl{u} mysql-client{a} mysql-client-5.0{a} mysql-server{a} mysql-server-5.0{u}
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 5 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 19.8MB of archives. After unpacking 55.9MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information… Done
Get:1 http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/main mysql-client-5.1 5.1.41-3~bpo50+1 [8254kB]
Get:2 http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/main mysql-server-5.1 5.1.41-3~bpo50+1 [11.6MB]
Fetched 19.8MB in 10s (1862kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages …
(Reading database … 151149 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libterm-readkey-perl …
Removing mysql-client …
Removing mysql-server …
Removing mysql-server-5.0 …
Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld.
Removing mysql-client-5.0 …
Processing triggers for man-db …
Selecting previously deselected package mysql-client-5.1.
(Reading database … 149153 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mysql-client-5.1 (from …/mysql-client-5.1_5.1.41-3~bpo50+1_i386.deb) …
Unpacking mysql-server-5.1 (from …/mysql-server-5.1_5.1.41-3~bpo50+1_i386.deb) …

NOTE the two attempts to unpack the archive simultaneously.

The deb installed fine on my other Debian 5.03 (PIII coppermine) server.
This is the only package that hangs while installing.
The updated libmysql installs fine.
The mysql-client-5.1 installs fine.

Any ideas?