[Techtalk] Cannot get LAMP mysql or php to start

[Leslie MacDougall]

Hi Wim, don't know if this helps:

> dpkg -l gave:
> ii mysql-client 5.1.30really5. MySQL database client (metapackage depending
> ii mysql-client-5 5.1.30really5. MySQL database client binaries
> ii mysql-common 5.1.30really5. MySQL database common files
> ii mysql-server 5.1.30really5. MySQL database server (metapackage depending
> ii mysql-server-5 5.1.30really5. MySQL database server binaries
> ii mysql-server-c 5.1.30really5. MySQL database core server files

I had the above result saved from a former email to a friend. Also
results for the following if you want them.
mysqld_safe &
mysqladmin -u root
sudo /etc/init.d/mysqld start
sudo apt-get install mysql-common mysql-server php5-mysql mysql-client

Unfortunately I cannot even open a terminal before my computer
crashes. (I am sending this email from someone else's windows machine
:'( !!)
Any suggestions as to how I can get mine to stay on long enough to
find and kill the configuration job?

Thanks, Leslie :)



On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Wim De Smet <kromagg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:30 AM, Leslie MacDougall <lesmacdee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Wim De Smet <kromagg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Leslie,
>>>
>>> It's best to reply to list, so others can follow along. :-)
>>
>> Hi, I don't have the option reply to list, but am hoping 'reply to
>> all' is the same thing.
>
> That's alright, I usually remove all other email addresses by hand.
>
>>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Leslie MacDougall <lesmacdee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> lolz at lolz-ubuntu:/var/lib/dpkg$ apt-cache policy mysql-server
>> mysql-server:
>>  Installed: (none)
>> mysql-server-5.0:
>>  Installed: (none)
>
> So I'm guessing you have mysql-server-5.1 installed (check with
> apt-cache policy mysql-server-5.1).
>
>>>> I can't do anything unless I run Isudo dpkg --configure -a
>>>> running it gives the above error over an over again no matter which
>>>> option you choose.
>>>
>>> Can you give us the error in its entiry? Especially the few lines
>>> before/after it so we know which package is throwing them.
>>
>> I tried to do this but unfortunately itshut my browser down, and
>> crashed my computer a few minutes later. I am sending this from
>> someone else's (WINDOWS :((( !!!) machine.
>
> I'm not sure what could cause something like that, usually when weird
> stuff like that starts happening the root cause is more likely to be a
> hardware problem. Any way, onwards.
>
>> lolz at lolz-ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -alolz at lolz-ubuntu:~$ sudo
>> dpkg --configure -a
>> [sudo] password for lolz:
>> Setting up mtop (0.6.6-1.2) ...
>> /var/lib/dpkg/info/mtop.postinst: 92: mysql: not found
>> /var/lib/dpkg/info/mtop.postinst: 92: mysql: not found
>> dpkg: error processing mtop (--configure):
>>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127
>> Setting up libdspam7-drv-mysql (3.6.8-9ubuntu3) ...
>> dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/libdspam7-drv-mysql.conf
>> *** WARNING: ucf was run from a maintainer script that uses debconf, but
>>             the script did not pass --debconf-ok to ucf. The maintainer
>>             script should be fixed to not stop debconf before calling ucf,
>>             and pass it this parameter. For now, ucf will revert to using
>>             old-style, non-debconf prompting. Ugh!
>>
>>             Please inform the package maintainer about this problem.
>> warning: database package not installed?
>> dbconfig-common: libdspam7-drv-mysql configure: aborted.
>> dbconfig-common: flushing administrative password
>> dpkg: error processing libdspam7-drv-mysql (--configure):
>>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>> Setting up auth2db-common (0.2.5-2+dfsg-1.1ubuntu1) ...
>
> Well that confirms that dpkg is seriously confused about the state
> your system is in right now. The following is a bit of a black art as
> I'm not entirely sure when dpkg will allow you to get rid of the
> packages.
>
> Maybe a first option is to try to reinstall the 5.1 package (assuming
> that's the one you have):
> sudo apt-get install --reinstall mysql-server-5.1
> or:
> apt-get -f install (in case apt is aware of the problem)
> If dpkg complains about that, you'll probably have to remove all those
> broken packages first.If it actually works try running dpkg
> --configure -a and see if it works.
>
> Otherwise, try just removing broken packages with dpkg:
> dpkg -r mtop libdspam7-drv-mysql
> If that doesn't work (this might break stuff even more, but then
> usually solved by reinstalling them later):
> dpkg --no-triggers -r mtop libdspam7-drv-mysql (add any other packages
> the fail on mysql)
> or:
> dpkg --force all -r mtop libdspam7-drv-mysql
> or combined:
> dpkg --force all --no-triggers -r mtop libdspam7-drv-mysql
>
> This will most likely leave all sorts of junk from these packages
> behind on your system so take note which of them you are removing so
> you can reinstall them later and then remove them cleanly if
> necessary.
>
> regards,
> Wim
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