Selecting previously deselected package mysql-server. Unpacking mysql-server (from .../mysql-server_5.0.51a-24+lenny5_all.deb) ... Setting up libperl5.10 (5.10.0-19lenny5) ... Setting up libmysqlclient15off (5.0.51a-24+lenny5) ... Setting up perl-modules (5.10.0-19lenny5) ... Setting up perl (5.10.0-19lenny5) ... Setting up libdbd-mysql-perl (4.007-1+lenny1) ... Setting up mysql-client-5.0 (5.0.51a-24+lenny5) ... Setting up mysql-server-5.0 (5.0.51a-24+lenny5) ... Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld. Starting MySQL database server: mysqld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . failed! 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 Setting up libhtml-template-perl (2.9-1) ... Setting up libterm-readkey-perl (2.30-4) ... 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) shell:~#