Ubuntu
mysql-5.6 package

Upgrade from EOL version 5.1 fails

Bug #1421648 reported by David Meysman on 2015-02-13

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	mysql-5.6 (Ubuntu)	Won't Fix	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

updating from 8.04, using update manager.

update failed.

update asked me to send the log files, and they are attached as a tar file.

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David Meysman (david-meysman) wrote on 2015-02-13:

tar of log files Edit (340.0 KiB, application/x-tar)

Chris Johnston (cjohnston) on 2015-02-13

information type:	Proprietary → Public
affects:	ubuntu-website-content → ubuntu

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2015-02-18:

From the log files:

^M
dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.1 (--configure):^M
subprocess installed post-installation script killed by signal (Interrupt)^M
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server:^M
mysql-server depends on mysql-server-5.1; however:^M
Package mysql-server-5.1 is not configured yet.^M
dpkg: error processing mysql-server (--configure):^M
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured^M

affects:

ubuntu → mysql-5.6 (Ubuntu)

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Robie Basak (racb) wrote on 2015-03-24:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

All the supported upgrade paths from 8.04 are end of life now, and no longer supported. So although there might well be a bug here, it could only be fixed in a release of Ubuntu that no longer receives updates. So I don't think there is anything we can do to fix a bug in such an old and unsupported automatic upgrade path.

I suggest that you install a fresh system on a current release, and migrate your database over from 5.1 manually.