On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Alex Dean
<alex@crackpot.org> wrote:
On Jun 2, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Mark Phillips wrote:
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Alex Dean <alex@crackpot.org> wrote:
On Jun 2, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Mark Phillips wrote:
Starting MySQL database server: mysqld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.0 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Check the mysql error log & syslog in your chroot to see if you can figure out why MySQL failed to start. Could be as simple as file ownership/permissions.
Looking in my chroot, there is nothing in /var/log/mysql.err, /var/log/mysql.log, or /var/log/mysql. I mean no entries. I don't have a syslog in the chroot /var/log area.
yes
I wonder what created them. Maybe the debian post-install scripts.
my guess, too
Would the mysql user be able to write to those files & directories, or are they owned by root or some other user?
[orca:/]# ls -alh /var/log
total 208K
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4.0K Jun 2 14:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4.0K Jun 2 00:32 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 2 00:48 apt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.4K Jun 2 13:58 aptitude
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 31 Jun 2 00:33 boot
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28K Jun 2 00:33 bootstrap.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 0 Jun 2 00:32 btmp
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 31 Jun 2 00:33 dmesg
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 116K Jun 2 15:09 dpkg.log
drwxr-s--- 2 Debian-exim adm 4.0K Jun 2 04:17 exim4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24K Jun 2 14:09 faillog
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 2 00:33 fsck
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 286K Jun 2 14:09 lastlog
drwxr-s--- 2 mysql adm 4.0K Jun 2 14:10 mysql
-rw-r----- 1 mysql adm 0 Jun 2 15:08 mysql.err
-rw-r----- 1 mysql adm 0 Jun 2 15:08 mysql.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 0 Jun 2 00:32 wtmp
[orca:/]#
It looks like you have all binaries & libraries installed, but some post-installation tasks have failed to complete.
I agree
You might try starting mysql yourself, and see if that gives you any more clues about what's wrong.
Just the same message that it failed
[orca:/]# /etc/init.d/mysql start
Starting MySQL database server: mysqld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . failed!
[orca:/]#