MySQL 5.1 support for innodb plugin broken

5.1.37 is in karmic, thus marking this fixed released.

Declining for jaunty as well - the confirmed bug affects only users wanting to use the innodb plugin instead of the builtin version.

Lack of InnoDB.

From today installation:

mysql> show engines;
+------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+
| Engine | Support | Comment | Transactions | XA | Savepoints |
+------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+
| MyISAM | DEFAULT | Default engine as of MySQL 3.23 with great performance | NO | NO | NO |
| MRG_MYISAM | YES | Collection of identical MyISAM tables | NO | NO | NO |
| BLACKHOLE | YES | /dev/null storage engine (anything you write to it disappears) | NO | NO | NO |
| CSV | YES | CSV storage engine | NO | NO | NO |
| MEMORY | YES | Hash based, stored in memory, useful for temporary tables | NO | NO | NO |
| FEDERATED | NO | Federated MySQL storage engine | NULL | NULL | NULL |
| ARCHIVE | YES | Archive storage engine | NO | NO | NO |
+------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+
7 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql>

mysql> select version();
+-----------------+
| version() |
+-----------------+
| 5.1.37-1ubuntu5 |
+-----------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql>

dpkg -l |grep mysql
ii libdbd-mysql-perl 4.011-1ubuntu1 A Perl5 database interface to the MySQL data
ii libmysqlclient16 5.1.37-1ubuntu5 MySQL database client library
ii mysql-client-5.1 5.1.37-1ubuntu5 MySQL database client binaries
ii mysql-common 5.1.37-1ubuntu5 MySQL database common files (e.g. /etc/mysql
ii mysql-server-5.1 5.1.37-1ubuntu5 MySQL database server binaries
ii mysql-server-core-5.1

A clean installation of karmic shows InnoDB as an available engine:

mysql> show engines;
+------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+
| Engine | Support | Comment | Transactions | XA | Savepoints |
+------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+
| InnoDB | YES | Supports transactions, row-level locking, and foreign keys | YES | YES | YES |
| MRG_MYISAM | YES | Collection of identical MyISAM tables | NO | NO | NO |
| BLACKHOLE | YES | /dev/null storage engine (anything you write to it disappears) | NO | NO | NO |
| CSV | YES | CSV storage engine | NO | NO | NO |
| MEMORY | YES | Hash based, stored in memory, useful for temporary tables | NO | NO | NO |
| FEDERATED | NO | Federated MySQL storage engine | NULL | NULL | NULL |
| ARCHIVE | YES | Archive storage engine | NO | NO | NO |
| MyISAM | DEFAULT | Default engine as of MySQL 3.23 with great performance | NO | NO | NO |
+------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> select version();
+-----------------+
| version() |
+-----------------+
| 5.1.37-1ubuntu5 |
+-----------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Could you make sure that innodb hasn't be disable in the configuration file?