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mysql-dfsg-5.0 package

  1. Bug #302939
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 302939

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Jonathan Marsden (jmarsden) wrote :

Based on:

> 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.

I would say you have set up account password expiry for the mysql user and it has expired.
I would suggest you try:

    sudo passwd -u mysql

to straighten that out, and then try again.