mySQL can't start, then ee can't be uninstalled #321
Description
Installed the current ee on top of newly installed and updated U 14.04 Server x64.
Then mySQL couldn't start because of the missing mysql.sock.
After various tries I gave up and decided to uninstall, which also didn't work.
# cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS"
# ee version
EasyEngine (ee) version: 2.1.0
# ee stack purge
....
Setting up libterm-readkey-perl (2.31-1) ...
Setting up mysql-client-core-5.5 (5.5.38-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) ...
Setting up mysql-client-5.5 (5.5.38-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) ...
Setting up mysql-server-core-5.5 (5.5.38-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) ...
Setting up mysql-server-5.5 (5.5.38-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) ...
141009 14:11:28 [Warning] Using unique option prefix key_buffer instead of key_buffer_size is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use the full name instead.
start: Job failed to start
invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing package mysql-server-5.5 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up gdb (7.7-0ubuntu3.1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server:
mysql-server depends on mysql-server-5.5; however:
Package mysql-server-5.5 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package mysql-server (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up percona-toolkit (2.2.7-1~dfsg1) ...
Setting up libc6-dbg:amd64 (2.19-0ubuntu6.3) ...
Setting up mysqltuner (1.2.0-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.3) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
mysql-server-5.5
mysql-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
[ Thu Oct 9 14:11:43 PDT 2014 ] Unable to install MySQL, exit status = 100
# tail -f /var/log/syslog
Oct 9 14:11:38 ubuntu kernel: [ 1453.992362] init: mysql main process (22147) terminated with status 1
Oct 9 14:11:38 ubuntu kernel: [ 1453.992374] init: mysql main process ended, respawning
Oct 9 14:11:38 ubuntu kernel: [ 1454.037057] init: mysql post-start process (22148) terminated with status 1
Oct 9 14:11:38 ubuntu kernel: [ 1454.045663] type=1400 audit(1412889098.649:61): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" profile="unconfined" name="/usr/sbin/mysqld" pid=22194 comm="apparmor_parser"
Oct 9 14:11:40 ubuntu kernel: [ 1455.974616] init: mysql main process (22206) terminated with status 1
Oct 9 14:11:40 ubuntu kernel: [ 1455.974639] init: mysql main process ended, respawning
Oct 9 14:11:40 ubuntu kernel: [ 1456.088756] init: mysql post-start process (22208) terminated with status 1
Oct 9 14:11:40 ubuntu kernel: [ 1456.100089] type=1400 audit(1412889100.701:62): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" profile="unconfined" name="/usr/sbin/mysqld" pid=22253 comm="apparmor_parser"
Oct 9 14:11:42 ubuntu kernel: [ 1458.048719] init: mysql main process (22265) terminated with status 1
Oct 9 14:11:42 ubuntu kernel: [ 1458.048730] init: mysql respawning too fast, stopped
Now installation doesn't work either
# ee stack install
Adding rtCamp NGINX launchpad repository, please wait...
Adding Ondrej PHP5 launchpad repository, please wait...
Executing apt-get update, please wait...
Installing nginx-custom, please wait...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
nginx-custom is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up mysql-server-5.5 (5.5.38-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) ...
start: Job failed to start
invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing package mysql-server-5.5 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server:
mysql-server depends on mysql-server-5.5; however:
Package mysql-server-5.5 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package mysql-server (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
mysql-server-5.5
mysql-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
[ Thu Oct 9 14:16:08 PDT 2014 ] Unable to install nginx-custom, exit status = 100