[debian-mysql] Bug#515145: mysqld fails to start after reinstall

[Alexander Gerasiov]

Package: mysql-server
Version: 5.0.51a-24
Severity: serious

mysqld/usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't read dir of '/etc/mysql/conf.d/' (Errcode: 2)

How to reproduce:

1st install libmysqlclient. It will get mysql-common as dependence.

[gq at thus:~]$ ls /etc/mysql 
conf.d  my.cnf

Then install mysq-server
aptitude install mysql-server

it works.
Then aptitude purge mysql-server...

[gq at thus:~]$ ls /etc/mysql 
debian.cnf  debian-start  my.cnf

conf.d disappears =(

And after reinstall mysql-server it fails to start:
mysqld/usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't read dir of '/etc/mysql/conf.d/' (Errcode: 2)

It is reprodusable.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (750, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (750, 'testing'), (700, 'proposed-updates'), (700, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mysql-server depends on:
pn  mysql-server-5.0              <none>     (no description available)

mysql-server recommends no packages.

mysql-server suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information