Hi Sean -
have you tried the later version of mysql-server?
Just the 4.1 in testing. And it works great.
if it didn't work for anyone, then i think that would qualify as grave.
but -2 only seemed to have problems with some people and not others,
which makes it fall under something closer to a important classification
imo. see:
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities
for the official classification.
So you've had reports of this problem from other people too? I wonder if it might be architecture-dependent - like optimizations or something, in -2. This machine is a vernerable Pentium Pro.
i'd really appreciate if you could find out if the latest 4.0 fixes the
problem, so we can authoritatively close this bug.
Sean, what a pain... ;)
OK - I went and grabbed stuff from unstable, all the necessary dependencies.
At first it was behaving the same way - but it turned out to be the database structure of 4.1 not being right with 4.0....
So wiped the databases and used the 4.0 format...
Verified that the 4.0.24-5 actually works - whereas 4.0.24-2 does not.
So yes, the latest 4.0 (-5) fixes whatever problem existed in -2.
But I've gone back to 4.1 ... ;)
i'm still suspecting it might be related to mysql was built in -2, and
like i said we can't know without working more on the bug.
I'm curious - how was -2 built differently? Apparently that might be the problem, if that's what you're suspecting...
hehehe.... Yes. And thank you for helping me sort through it so I could help in my little way.
Seems to me that in testing, the mysql-server package should be replaced with the mysql-server-4.1 package
ah, if only life were that simple. both packages provide different and sometimes incompatible libraries (libmysqlclient), which many other packages depend upon. it is a truly tangled web we weave. after sarge, 4.0 will probably disappear in place of 4.1 and 5.0 existing side-by-side.
The coexistence will be nice!
Thanks Sean, Mark
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