Comment 2 for bug 397534

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/log/daemon.log

 * apparmor audit messages related to mysqld:

    /var/log/kern.log

 * mysqld apparmor profile:

    /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld

 * list of mysqld apparmor profiles:

    ls -l /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld*

 * mysql configuration stripped of private information (such as password):

    /etc/mysql/my.cnf

 * extra mysql configuration from the conf.d directory:

    /etc/mysql/conf.d/

 * directory listing of mysql datadir (by default /var/lib/mysql):

    ls -l /var/lib/mysql

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Relevant error messages
Setting up mysql-server-5.1 (5.1.31-1ubuntu2) ...

 * Stopping MySQL database server mysqld 
[ OK ]

090709 12:51:02 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 46409

090709 12:51:02 InnoDB: Starting shutdown...

090709 12:51:03 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 0 46409

090709 12:51:03 [Warning] Forcing shutdown of 1 plugins

 * Starting MySQL database server mysqld 
[fail]

invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.

dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.1 (--configure):

 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1