apt-get hangs when upgrading mysql-server-5.1

[Rocketeer]

Any news on this? I had similar problems, but purging, removing and cleaning did not help. During reinstall I recieve now

Quote:
start: Job failed to start
invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
Regards

[thale]

Fixed it.

I purged all of the mysql packages, cleaned the cached deb's, removed the mysql user, removed the /var/lib/mysql /etc/mysql /etc/init/mysql.conf /etc/init.d/mysql blah blah

everything. However, I missed the /var/run/mysql/mysql.sock AND there was a mysql zombie process that wouldn't respond to kill -9. I had to reboot the machine. After all that I was able to reinstall mysql.

[deepesh]

I faced the same problem. Stopping mysql server let the upgrade proceed.
$sudo service mysql stop