[debian-mysql] Bug#482276: mysql-server: Reports spurious (?) errors at startup

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Package: mysql-server
Version: 5.0.51a-5
Severity: minor

After the latest mysql-server upgrade to 5.0.51a-5, root is getting odd (?) messages at 
every start or restart from the function check_for_crashed_tables() in debian-start.inc.sh 

I can duplicate the messages by running this part of the script at the command line: 
/usr/bin/mysql --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf  -N -b -e 'select concat("select count(*) from ",TABLE_SCHEMA,".", TABLE_NAME) from information_schema.TABLES where ENGINE="MyISAM"' | xargs -i /usr/bin/mysql --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf -N -q -e "{}" 
It appears to be just a list of select count(*) from mysql.various-tables 

It is unclear to me what these results have to do with crashed tables, 
whether they are harmless, and whether they should be turned off somehow.

Sorry, but I am no expert on mysql-server. 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25.4 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mysql-server depends on:
ii  mysql-server-5.0              5.0.51a-5  MySQL database server binaries

mysql-server recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  mysql-server/skip_networking: false
  mysql-server/really_downgrade_from_41: false
  mysql-server/want_chroot: false
* mysql-server/start_on_boot: true
  mysql-server/postrm_remove_databases: false
* mysql-server/mysql_install_db_notes:
  mysql-server/nis_warning:
  mysql-server/mysql_update_hints1:
* mysql-server/postrm_remove_database: false
  mysql-server/fix_privileges_warning: