install crashes while adding mailody software

Bug #369088 reported by Sacha
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mysql-dfsg-5.0 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
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Bug Description

having added mailody in the add/remove apps, it started installing mysql. the process went quite far until it said that it crashed. i'm running Ubuntu 8.10. i can still start mailody from the app menu.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: mysql-server-5.0 None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mysql-server-5.0.list]
SourcePackage: mysql-dfsg-5.0
Title: package mysql-server-5.0 None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mysql-server-5.0.list] failed to install/upgrade: subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

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Sacha (sacha-internetgroup) wrote :
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Andreas Olsson (andol) wrote :

These lines, from DpkgTerminalLog.txt

Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator
chfn: PAM authentication failed
adduser: `/usr/bin/chfn -f MySQL Server mysql' returned error code 1. Exiting.

...makes me think of bug #238755.

Does anything mentioned in it, and its comment, sound familiar? Is it a clean 8.10 install, or is it an upgrade from 8.04?

Changed in mysql-dfsg-5.0 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Andreas Olsson (andol) wrote :

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

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Sacha (sacha-internetgroup) wrote : Re: [Bug 369088] Re: install crashes while adding mailody software

Dear Andreas

Thank you for following up on this matter. I have since
stopped trying and no loger wish to have assistance for
Mailody.

Kind regards

Sacha de Rosner
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Andreas Olsson wrote:
> We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't
> heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested
> information? Thanks!
>

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Andreas Olsson (andol) wrote :

@Sacha: Ok, closing this report then.

Changed in mysql-dfsg-5.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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