On Sun, 2012-10-21 at 23:28 -0700, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > Hi. I've just experienced this problem on a fresh wheezy install using > the beta3 installer. The installation was performed using the netboot > image (that is, PXE and downloading the installer components from a TFTP > server) on a physical, non-virtual host. > > I haven't put in a lot of time to investigate, but one thing I have > observed is that if I try to install mysql-server-5.5 on a freshly > installed system that has the 'desktop' task installed, the installation > fails. However, if I build a similar system but leave off the 'desktop' > task, the mysql installation is successful. Obviously there are a lot of > packages involved in the desktop task, so I'm not sure how much this > help to narrow things down. It definitely appears repeatable, however. > > Since this problem does impact the ability to install the mysql server > packages on a common system configuration, I think a severity of at > least 'important' is warranted. Honestly I think 'grave' would be > appropriate, as I don't think it'd be reasonable to release wheezy with > this bug in place. That sounds more serious than what I experienced, which was that there was an error in the log but mysql 5.5 at least appears to be functioning properly.
I did an upgrade, not a fresh install, and it was in a minimalist chroot. It's possible that whatever the offending package is was not on my chroot system. Ross -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
