Check if your /tmp has the right permissions. Mine, on a fairly clean xen VPS install was set to 755 and this prevented the creation of the root user during the installation of mysql-server package.
chmod 1777 /tmp Then purge and reinstall mysql-server. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
