ok, i noticed in the system monitor that a process kept trying to run
'stop mysql', but mysql wasn't running (probably stopped earlier in the
dpkg script). If you're into this situation, run 'sudo start mysql' and
dpkg will continue normally.
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package mysql-server-5.1 5.1.41-3ubuntu12 failed to
2010-05-10 11:01:00 configure mysql-common 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.1 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.1
2010-05-10 11:01:00 status unpacked mysql-common 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.1
2010-05-10 11:01:00 status unpacked mysql-common 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.1
2010-05-10 11:01:00 status half-configured mysql-common 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.1
2010-05