mysql upgrade error

[Phil Dobbin]

On 10/08/13 15:21, Colin Law wrote:
> On 10 August 2013 14:42, Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 10/08/13 14:07, Colin Law wrote:
>>> On 10 August 2013 13:56, Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 10/08/13 13:27, Colin Law wrote:
>>>>> On 10 August 2013 11:24, Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> By the way, I managed to re-install MySQL so I just need to re-install
>>>>>> OwnCloud & it's back to business.
>>>>> Why did you need to re-install?  Could you not just revert to the
>>>>> previous version?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Well, OwnCloud needed upgrading & I have backups so I thought I'd start
>>>> with
>>>> a clean slate.
>>>>
>>>> As a matter of interest, how would I have reverted?
>>> First disable updates from proposed in your software sources (you have
>>> done that I hope, otherwise you will get the problem again).  Then I
>>> /think/ that just
>>> sudo apt-get install mysql-server
>>> would have done it, though not completely certain.
>> Thanks, Colin.
>>
>> That's what I've done but OwnCloud is still broken. I'll just re-install it
>> & restore from backups.
> The original problem was an issue when trying to upgrade
> msysql-server.  I am not sure what that has to do with OwnCloud.
>
>
OwnCloud uses the MySQL backend so when it broke it took the service down.

Cheers,

     Phil...

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