while trying to open add/remove programs the error displaying the error is:
Failed to check for installed and available applications
This is a major failure of your software management system. Please check for broken packages with synaptic, check the file permissions and correctness of the file '/etc/apt/sources.list' and reload the software information with: 'sudo apt-get update' and 'sudo apt-get install -f'.
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 2.6.27-7-generic i686
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
Could you please provide the following information:
* content of /var/log/daemon.log related to mysql processes:
/var/
* apparmor audit messages related to mysqld:
/var/
* mysqld apparmor profile:
/etc/
* list of mysqld apparmor profiles:
ls -l /etc/apparmor.
* mysql configuration stripped of private information (such as password):
/etc/
* extra mysql configuration from the conf.d directory:
/etc/
* directory listing of mysql datadir (by default /var/lib/mysql):
ls -l /var/lib/mysql