Comment 3 for bug 382789

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Mathias Gug (mathiaz) wrote :

Relevant errors:

Preparing to replace mysql-server 5.1.30really5.0.75-0ubuntu10 (using .../mysql-server_5.1.30really5.0.75-0ubuntu10.2_all.deb) ...
 * Stopping MySQL database server mysqld
   ...fail!
invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "stop" failed.
invoke-rc.d returned 1
There is a MySQL server running, but we failed in our attempts to stop it.
Stop it yourself and try again!

Could you post the content of /var/log/daemon.log around the time of the upgrade to identify why mysqld has failed to be stopped?