这似乎是12.04上的一个常见问题。我在

this thread尝试过，包括：

sudo apt-get clean

sudo apt-get autoclean

sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql-client-5.5 mysql-client-core-5.5 mysql-common mysql-server mysql-server-5.5 mysql-server-core-5.5

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

我仍然得到相同的旧错误。安装/启动MySql5.5如下所示：

apt-get install -f mysql-server

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

mysql-server 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, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y

Setting up mysql-server-5.5 (5.5.24-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) ...

120907 21:37:15 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.

120907 21:37:15 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled

120907 21:37:15 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins

120907 21:37:15 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3.4

120907 21:37:15 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M

120907 21:37:15 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool

120907 21:37:15 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda.

120907 21:37:15 InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start

120907 21:37:16 InnoDB: 1.1.8 started; log sequence number 154164236

120907 21:37:16 InnoDB: Starting shutdown...

120907 21:37:16 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 154164236

start: Job failed to start

invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.

dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.5 (--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-5.5; however:

Package mysql-server-5.5 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing 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-5.5

mysql-server

另外，dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server-5.5返回/ usr / sbin / dpkg-reconfigure：mysql-server-5.5已损坏或未完全安装

这里的最终目标是安装和配置Gitorious以使用Redmine，但我相信这个问题被隔离到Ubuntu 12.04和MySql5.5