On 5 Jun 2003 Jojo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had got a 'apt-install error' problem when I used command: > > "apt-get -u install mysql-server mysql-client" > > laptop:~# apt-get -u install mysql-server mysql-client Reading Package > .... > Selecting previously deselected package mysql-server. > Unpacking mysql-server (from .../mysql-server_3.23.51-1woody5_i386.deb) ... > Setting up mysql-client (3.23.51-1woody5) ... > > Setting up mysql-server (3.23.51-1woody5) ... > Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld. > dpkg: error processing mysql-server (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > mysql-server > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I have had an error message like this > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 when installing 'gstreamer' packages. It turned out that in all their post-installation scripts the first two lines were: set -e unset DISPLAY This causes the scripts to prematurely exit if there is no DISPLAY set. And I had no DISPLAY set because I was not working in X. The simple work-around was to enter the command # export DISPLAY=<anything> before # dpkg --configure gstreamer-<package> Now I am not suggesting this is the solution to your problem, only that, if no other solution comes up, it is worth the trouble to extract the post-inst script from the mysql-server .deb package file and study its contents. You may find that the script fails because of some peculiarity of the environment it runs in on your system. Ben -- B.F.M. Kal Anjelierstraat 1, 2014 TC Haarlem, Netherlands tel +31 23 5324909, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
