[debian-mysql] Bug#843520: Bug#843520: mysql-server-5.5 cannot be automatically upgraded

[Robie Basak]

Hi Jean,

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 12:08:18PM +0100, Jean Louis wrote:
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get upgrad
> 
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> 
> Starting or configuring mysql-server-5.5 hangs forever. System is broken.
> 
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> 
> It hangs forever.

Unfortunately I think this isn't enough for anyone to understand what
happened in your case. This is a problem statement, not a bug report.

Clearly a simple upgrade on a fresh install of jessie works; otherwise
we would have thousands of bug reports. Something must be different on
your system, but we do not know what that is. Please provide full steps
to reproduce your problem so that we may figure that out.

> I see that several bugs have been filed and marked as RESOLVED, how
> they can be resolved when it is happening over and over again.

Because they are different bugs with different root causes. This
particular issue was determined to be something that needs to be fixed
in akonadi packaging and is now being tracked in bug 843534. Presumably
though you have a different issue as you did not mention akonadi in your
bug report.

Please understand that your report cannot be addressed because you have
not provided enough information. If this angers you, try reading
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html which is a great
essay that explains this problem well.

Please file a new bug report with full steps on how to reproduce your
bug. If it turns out to have a common root cause, we can always mark it
as a duplicate later.

Robie