severity 660206 serious thanks This is actually a regression, the only way to get things to work again is to downgrade package like such: apt-get install mysql-server-5.1=5.1.49-3 mysql-client-5.1=5.1.49-3 mysql-common=5.1.49-3 mysql-server-core-5.1=5.1.49-3 libmysqlclient16=5.1.49-3 micah --