On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Paul Tremblay <ptrembl at amazon.com> wrote: > > Problem fixed: > > sudo apt-get clean > > sudo apt-get autoclean > > sudo apt-get purge mysql-server* > > sudo apt-get install mysql-server Good. I'm embarrassed that I didn't think of uninstalling and reinstalling! Still it would've been interesting to find out what went wrong.