I ran into this problem when I fired up an AWS EC2 micro instance (which provides 512MB) with trusty and, on my brand spanking new server, tried to run sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.6. I tried Arnaud's suggestion on another brand spanking new micro trusty server, but no luck. However, when I fired up a trusy VM with 2GB of memory using Oracle VM Virtualbox, the MySQL 5.6 installation sailed through without a hitch. So memory certainly does appear to be the issue.
In practice this sure does suggest that there's no longer a way to load the latest LTS version of Ubuntu Server onto an EC2 micro instance and then install the latest version of MySQL that's available via apt- get.... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1312936 Title: Post-installation script fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.6/+bug/1312936/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
