Comment 0 for bug 305107

I just did a security upgrade for my Hardy system, and after the reboot, mysql refuses to start!

Errors already appear at system start, here the output of the command when I try to start the server manually after system start(errors are the same):

/etc/init.d/mysql restart
open: Permission denied
 * Stopping MySQL database server mysqld /usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't read dir of '/etc/mysql/conf.d/' (Errcode: 2)
Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted
/usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't read dir of '/etc/mysql/conf.d/' (Errcode: 2)
Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted
open: Permission denied
                                                                         [ OK ]
/usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't read dir of '/etc/mysql/conf.d/' (Errcode: 2)
Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted
open: Permission denied
 * Starting MySQL database server mysqld /usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't read dir of '/etc/mysql/conf.d/' (Errcode: 2)
Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted
/usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't read dir of '/etc/mysql/conf.d/' (Errcode: 2)
Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted
/usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't read dir of '/etc/mysql/conf.d/' (Errcode: 2)
Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted
/usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't read dir of '/etc/mysql/conf.d/' (Errcode: 2)
Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted
/usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't read dir of '/etc/mysql/conf.d/' (Errcode: 2)
Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted
/usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't read dir of '/etc/mysql/conf.d/' (Errcode: 2)
Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted
/usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't read dir of '/etc/mysql/conf.d/' (Errcode: 2)
Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted
/usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't read dir of '/etc/mysql/conf.d/' (Errcode: 2)
Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted
/usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't read dir of '/etc/mysql/conf.d/' (Errcode: 2)
Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted
/usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't read dir of '/etc/mysql/conf.d/' (Errcode: 2)
Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted
/usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't read dir of '/etc/mysql/conf.d/' (Errcode: 2)
Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted
/usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't read dir of '/etc/mysql/conf.d/' (Errcode: 2)
Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted
/usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't read dir of '/etc/mysql/conf.d/' (Errcode: 2)
Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted
/usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't read dir of '/etc/mysql/conf.d/' (Errcode: 2)
Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted
/usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't read dir of '/etc/mysql/conf.d/' (Errcode: 2)
Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted
/usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't read dir of '/etc/mysql/conf.d/' (Errcode: 2)
Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted
open: Permission denied
                                                                         [fail]

root@xnote:~# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04

root@xnote:~# dpkg -l mysql*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=================================-=================================-==================================================================================
ii mysql-admin 5.0~rc12-2ubuntu1 GUI tool for intuitive MySQL administration
un mysql-admin-common <none> (no description available)
ii mysql-client 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4 MySQL database client (meta package depending on the latest version)
un mysql-client-4.1 <none> (no description available)
ii mysql-client-5.0 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4 MySQL database client binaries
ii mysql-common 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4 MySQL database common files
un mysql-community-client-5.0 <none> (no description available)
un mysql-community-server-5.0 <none> (no description available)
un mysql-doc-5.0 <none> (no description available)
un mysql-enterprise-client-5.0 <none> (no description available)
un mysql-enterprise-server-5.0 <none> (no description available)
un mysql-gpl-client <none> (no description available)
ii mysql-gui-tools-common 5.0~rc12-2ubuntu1 Architecture independent files for MySQL GUI Tools
un mysql-navigator <none> (no description available)
un mysql-proxy <none> (no description available)
ii mysql-query-browser 5.0~rc12-2ubuntu1 Official GUI tool to query MySQL database
un mysql-query-browser-common <none> (no description available)
ii mysql-server 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4 MySQL database server (meta package depending on the latest version)
un mysql-server-4.1 <none> (no description available)
ii mysql-server-5.0 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4 MySQL database server binaries
un mysqltcl <none> (no description available)