dpkg always try to install mysql-server-5.7

Question

Whenever i try to install anything, it always install mysql-server-5.7.

I tried sudo apt-get install php-mbstring but it tried to install mysql-server-5.7 first. I don't know what is going wrong.

I am getting following errors

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
php-mbstring is already the newest version (1:7.0+35ubuntu6).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? \[Y/n\] y
Setting up mysql-server-5.7 (5.7.13-0ubuntu0.16.04.2) ...
Renaming removed key_buffer and myisam-recover options (if present)
dpkg: error processing package mysql-server-5.7 (--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-5.7; however:
  Package mysql-server-5.7 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package mysql-server (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                          Errors were encountered while processing:
 mysql-server-5.7
 mysql-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)]

Here is the attached

Solution

I had had the same problem. In my case, it reveals that for some reasons I had the mysql-server running with sock file places in /tmp/something/ (maybe it was started by the dpkg, cause I dont have mysql enabled at startup?). I killed the mysqlserver (kill -9) and stared the mysql service just normal (service mysql start).

Then I run sudo dpkg --configure -a. While updating the script throw an error about to low "thread_stack" which was easy to change in mysqld.cnf (/etc/mysql). Restarted the mysql service, run dpkg --configure -a once again and voila - the upgrade went ok.

OS: Ubuntu16.04.1

Comments

[Anwar]

The problem here is, you installed (or someone else) mysql-server-5.7 and it didn't cleanly installed. Either because of some dependency problem or other. As a result, whenever you want to install another package, apt tries to complete the earlier installation. From your posted messages, I see that it is caused by a dependency problem. Using sudo apt-get -f install should get you out of the problem. If not edit the question to include what goes wrong.

[Byte Commander]

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[Gweltaz Niquel]

Hi, I'm sorry, I didn't even notice that the website was in English, sorry. I don't really think that I need Google translate and it's not really cool to post auto-translated content neither. I'll take care about that next time.

[Sushivam]

Whats the solution for the same

[Charney Kaye]

I found success after I checked ps -aef | grep mysql and sent a kill signal to all varieties of running mysqld.