It seems I did have some old mysql files floating around from several years ago. Moving them out of the way and reconfiguring produced this:
Setting up mysql-server-5.5 (5.5.31+dfsg-1) ... [ ok ] Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld. 130621 1:54:08 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled. 130621 1:54:08 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled 130621 1:54:08 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins 130621 1:54:08 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.7 130621 1:54:08 InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO 130621 1:54:08 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M 130621 1:54:08 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool 130621 1:54:09 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda. 130621 1:54:09 InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start 130621 1:54:10 InnoDB: 5.5.31 started; log sequence number 1595675 130621 1:54:10 InnoDB: Starting shutdown... 130621 1:54:11 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 1595675 [ ok ] Starting MySQL database server: mysqld .. [info] Checking for tables which need an upgrade, are corrupt or were not closed cleanly.. Setting up mysql-server (5.5.31+dfsg-1) ... # /etc/inid.d stop [ ok ] Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld. # /etc/inid.d start [ ok ] Starting MySQL database server: mysqld .. [info] Checking for tables which need an upgrade, are corrupt or were not closed cleanly.. Some of those old tables date back to 2005. I even see a debian-4.1.flag file, and that isn't the oldest. The newest files date to 2010. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org