[debian-mysql] Bug#682232: Failed upgrade of mysql from squeeze to wheezy

[Johannes Ranke]

Just for the record, maybe there are more people out there that are late 
upgrading their servers from squeeze to wheezy...

When /etc/init.d/mysql start fails as described in this report, the command

mysqld

gives information on the command line what is going on. In my case, I had 
several errors, including the hint that I should run mysql_upgrade (which did 
not work, as it needs a running mysql server):

160307 21:49:22 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run 
mysql_upgrade to create it.
160307 21:49:22 [ERROR] mysqld: unknown option '--skip-bdb'
160307 21:49:22 [ERROR] Aborting

So in the end, in addition to using

default-storage-engine=myisam

I had to comment out the line

#skip-bdb


Johannes