It was working fine before and I was configuring the mysql (via /etc/init.d/mysql restart). I‘m pretty sure that I did not touch anything in there but I can remember doing a failed apt-get update prior to that.
Now my problem starts when all of a sudden it stops and won‘t even start. I searched on google and even went far to purging everything and doing a new install. But still it won‘t let me install mysql properly.
I‘ve tried (after doing a remove --purge):
sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.5 mysql-client-5.5
and it prompts me for a root passsword, but returns me the MySQL "root" user An error occurred while setting the MySQL administrative user. may happened the already has a password, or the MySQL server. You should check account‘s password after the /usr/share/doc/mysql-server-5.5/README.Debian file for more information.
and I the following logs too:
Selecting previously deselected package mysql-server-5.5.
(Reading database ... 117879 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mysql-server-5.5 (from .../mysql-server-5.5_5.5.32-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Setting up mysql-server-5.5 (5.5.32-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) ...
130830 14:13:26 [ERROR] Can‘t find messagefile ‘/usr/share/mysql/errmsg.sys‘
start: Job failed to start
invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.5 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
mysql-server-5.5
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
any help? Thanks in advance.
