On 2007-04-07 Michael Gellman wrote:
> On upgrading from 5.0.32-7 to 5.0.36-1 I was affected by this bug. It
> hung at the configuration stage with "Stopping MySQL database server".
> 
> My fix was to killall -9 mysqld processes, remove mysql-server-5.0 and
> then reinstall the old version of mysql-server-5.0 that I had
> in /var/cache/apt/archives.
> 
> This package is installed on a 2.4.26 host running under user-mode linux
> (a Bytemark.co.uk host)

Please try with a 2.6 kernel. Another user reported that this is at least a
workaround. I have yet to try to reproduce it with a 2.4 myself.

bye,

-christian-

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