Ok Jamie,
>From my point of view, I've had the opportunity to raise and discuss all
my concerns and I believe the position of the Ubunu team is that things
will stay the same in the Apparmor package.
I guess my 'bug' is closed.
Nevertheless, many thanks to the team for taking the time and effort
Ok, so apparmor doesn't like some local condition on my machine. The
substance of my bug report is still the same.
The package maintainer should configure the apparmor package so that it
does these things:
- at the pre-install phase, check for affected services and warn the admin when
a service
MySQL isn't installed in /opt. The myslqd is the Ubuntu one in
/usr/sbin/mysqld. On this system, /usr/share is symlinked to /opt/share
and has been since the system was installed (and prior to the mysql
package being installed). The mysql package was upgraded a number of
times with apt-get dist-u
I didn't really want apparmor to be installed, but thanks for the tip.
Nope, I didn't install apparmor-profiles; I don't believe apparmor is
necessary for running mysql on Ubuntu.
I was upgrading the whole system, to the best of my recollection, the
version numbers were from 5.0.45 under Gutsy to
Public bug reported:
The problem seems to be caused by Apparmor. For example in
/var/log/syslog:
Mar 19 20:04:39 lyra kernel: [ 6979.352113] audit(1205957079.490:28): operation=
"inode_permission" request_mask="r::" denied_mask="r::"
name="/opt/share/mysql/english/errmsg.sys" pid=3861 profile="
