[debian-mysql] Bug#444107: mysql-server-5.0: mysql fails to start on clean install

[Rudy Godoy Guillén]

Package: mysql-server-5.0
Version: 5.0.45-1
Severity: important

When doing a clean install of mysql-server-5.0 it fails to start, just
before the first restart. However if I cancel the config process by
ctrl+c dpkg tries to fix the --configure and try it again, this time 
the --configure is complete and the server is started withouth problems.

Here is the log of my installation (mostly in spanish) but I believe
you can follow aptitude messages.

Desempaquetando mysql-server-5.0 (de .../mysql-server-5.0_5.0.45-1_i386.deb) ...
Seleccionando el paquete mysql-server previamente no seleccionado.
Desempaquetando mysql-server (de .../mysql-server_5.0.45-1_all.deb) ...
Configurando mysql-server-5.0 (5.0.45-1) ...
Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld.
Starting MySQL database server: mysqld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.

dpkg: error al procesar mysql-server-5.0 (--configure):
 el subproceso post-installation script fue terminado por la señal (Interrupción)
dpkg: problemas de dependencias impiden la configuración de mysql-server:
 mysql-server depende de mysql-server-5.0; sin embargo:
 El paquete `mysql-server-5.0' no está configurado todavía.
dpkg: error al procesar mysql-server (--configure):
 problemas de dependencias - se deja sin configurar
Se encontraron errores al procesar:
 mysql-server-5.0
 mysql-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Un paquete no se pudo instalar. Intentado recuperarse:
Configurando mysql-server-5.0 (5.0.45-1) ...
Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld.
Starting MySQL database server: mysqld ..
Checking for corrupt, not cleanly closed and upgrade needing tables..
Configurando mysql-server (5.0.45-1) ...



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=es_PE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_PE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mysql-server-5.0 depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.105            add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.14           Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                   2.6.1-5          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbi-perl             1.59-1           Perl5 database interface by Tim Bu
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.2.1-5        GCC support library
ii  libmysqlclient15off     5.0.45-1         MySQL database client library
ii  libncurses5             5.6+20070908-1   Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5            5.2-3            GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6              4.2.1-5          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libwrap0                7.6.dbs-14       Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  lsb-base                3.1-24           Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  mysql-client-5.0        5.0.45-1         MySQL database client binaries
ii  mysql-common            5.0.45-1         MySQL database common files
ii  passwd                  1:4.0.18.1-11    change and administer password and
ii  perl                    5.8.8-11         Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  psmisc                  22.5-1           Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages mysql-server-5.0 recommends:
ii  mailx            1:8.1.2-0.20070424cvs-1 A simple mail user agent

-- debconf information:
  mysql-server-5.0/really_downgrade: false
  mysql-server-5.0/start_on_boot: true
  mysql-server-5.0/nis_warning:
  mysql-server-5.0/postrm_remove_databases: false
  mysql-server-5.0/need_sarge_compat: false
  mysql-server/error_setting_password:
  mysql-server-5.0/need_sarge_compat_done: true