[SOLVED] Installing LAMP, Mysql debconf hangs

[Statik]

Hi all,
New install of 8.04 on a HP DV2310CA. Did all updates. Got the wireless working, and all other hardware worked out of the box. So, my next thing, install LAMP. Tried the apt-get tasksel route and the Synaptic select-by-task method. Install always seems to hang with Mysql-server-5.0 install, after entering a root password. With synaptic, the debconf window goes dark and stops responding.

What can I do?

Statik

[Statik]

Decided to leave the debconf window up for a while. After 20mins it started up again. After responding to a question, another long wait, the another question, then wait. Finally:

E: mysql-server-5.0: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
E: mysql-server: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured



and then long messages that I can't copy.

Statik

[Statik]

Tried apt-get install mtsql-server-5.0 and got:


Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
mysql-server-5.0 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up mysql-server-5.0 (5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.1) ...
* Stopping MySQL database server mysqld [ OK ]
Reloading AppArmor profiles : done.
* Starting MySQL database server mysqld [fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.0 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server:
mysql-server depends on mysql-server-5.0; however:
Package mysql-server-5.0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
mysql-server-5.0
mysql-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


ideas?

Statik

[Statik]

Weirdly enough, I've solved this without trying. I had another problem with apache in that localhost wasn't responding. I researched it and saw on boot the message about it ignoring an unknown network lo=lo, as shown in this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=858081

When I fixed that problem, the Mysql install problem went away as well! LO works with apache and Mysql is installed!

Thanks to all!

Statik