Comment 26 for bug 444349

szu,

Thanks. That seems to have fixed it for me.

Eric

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:51 PM, szu <email address hidden> wrote:

> in my case the mysql server failed to start because of the outdated
> config file, removing "skip-bdb" from /etc/mysql/my.cnf solved the
> problem (this is because they removed berkeley db support in mysql)
>
> the daemon.log attached to this bug shows the same as mine:
> Oct 6 09:59:30 asterios mysqld: 091006 9:59:30 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld:
> unknown option '--skip-bdb'
> Oct 6 09:59:30 asterios mysqld: 091006 9:59:30 [ERROR] Aborting
>
> this might also apply to the other recently submitted mysqld bugs, but
> most of them do not show the deamon.log files so i can't tell for sure.
>
> ideally, ubuntu install script should be intelligent and detect outdated
> keywords in config files and show a reasonable message instead of just
> "failed" :-)
>
> --
> package mysql-server-5.1 5.1.37-1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade:
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/444349
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