I have been unsuccessful at installing a mysql server on Ubuntu 12.04. Here is what I see when I try to install after a remove --purge of mysql server:
$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.5 mysql-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
tinyca mailx
The following NEW packages will be installed:
mysql-server mysql-server-5.5
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/8,861 kB of archives.
After this operation, 32.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package mysql-server-5.5.
(Reading database ... 257077 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mysql-server-5.5
(from .../mysql-server-5.5_5.5.43-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package mysql-server.
Unpacking mysql-server (from .../mysql-server_5.5.43-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Setting up mysql-server-5.5 (5.5.43-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) ...
150705 15:38:03 [Warning] Using unique option prefix key_buffer instead of
key_buffer_size is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
Please use the full name instead.
150705 15:38:03 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld (mysqld 5.5.43-0ubuntu0.12.04.1)
starting as process 14658 ...
start: Job failed to start
invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup
error from a previous failure.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.5 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server:
mysql-server depends on mysql-server-5.5; however:
Package mysql-server-5.5 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
mysql-server-5.5
mysql-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A mysql client is installed, but when I try to launch it I get this:
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
Any help will be appreciated.
