Hi Christian, Sorry, I was not very clear, and thank you for the prompt reply. I have tried the workaround before I posted my comment here. It does not work. Note I cannot uninstall MySQL. I need it. And yes, I don't want the service to run on boot, preferring to start it manually (Although I can change this of course, probably pads a couple milliseconds @ boot time but SSD speed is almost negligible). :)
>From what I read above and in other reports, this is what I have done so far: 1) enable the service - systemctl enable mysql.service 2) start if not yet started - systemctl start mysql.service 3) apt upgrade But it seems the `enable` command has some errors - sudo systemctl enable mysql.service Result: Synchronizing state of mysql.service with SysV init with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install... Executing /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable mysql insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (empty) of script `mysql' overrides LSB defaults (2 3 4 5). update-rc.d: error: no runlevel symlinks to modify, aborting! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1592669 Title: postinst fails when daemon is not running (or is disabled by policy- rc.d) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.7/+bug/1592669/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs