I don't know if this problem is going to be fixed any time soon, but I found that the following steps helped me (I'd done a dist-upgrade from stable to testing after etch was released and got into the mysqld hanging problem):
Edit sources.list and change back to stable apt-get update killall -9 mysqld apt-get remove mysql-server-5.0 apt-get clean apt-get install mysql-server After doing all that, my system worked again and I had the previous version of MySQL running. Hopefully this will help anyone else who had the same problem that I did (I noticed that at least one Bytemark customer was affected by this). Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]