Whenever I attempt to do a distribution upgrade, it fails because Mysql throws errors which I believe makes it impossible to do a system-wide upgrade.
I am on Ubuntu 16.04.
Not matter what I do to remove, purge, delete, or otherwise get rid of a mysql system that is non-functioning and preventing me from upgrading the distribution, I constantly receive the following errors. The following commands which seems to work for other people with this problem does not work for me:
Code:
sudo apt-get purge mysql*
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
Code:
apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
mysql-server-core-5.7
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 131 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 46.2 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 287191 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mysql-server-core-5.7 (5.7.22-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Setting up mysql-common (5.7.22-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative path /etc/mysql/my.cnf.fallback doesn't exist
dpkg: error processing package mysql-common (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-client-5.7:
mysql-client-5.7 depends on mysql-common (>= 5.5); however:
Package mysql-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package mysql-client-5.7 (--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-common
mysql-client-5.7
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
This is just insane as I cannot - under any circumstances or otherwise - get rid of this error. Followed and attempted to do all the different commands listed elsewhere to purge, remove, delete, etc. But I constantly receive this.
Should I just trash the system and start from scratch?
