Comment 15 for bug 305107

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Henning Sprang (henning) wrote : Re: [Bug 305107] Re: mysql refuses to start after security update

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Marc Deslauriers
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You're right!
When I don't do any git / etckeeper stuff, the empty directory remains.
When I do

apt-get install etckeeper
etckeeper init

the conf.d directory is deleted and mysql cannot start.
I did not think that could be causing the error

So we have really two bugs:

1) for etckeeper: it should not delete empty directories after a
system upgrade (in general, don't apply any changes on upgrades,
unless being explicitly told to clean something up)
2) In any case, the issue of the daemon not starting just because a
missing optional directory remains here for mysql