¿Cómo resuelvo este error después de intentar instalar mysql en Ubuntu Desktop 12.04?

¿Cómo resuelvo este error después de intentar instalar mysql en Ubuntu Desktop 12.04?

Recibo el siguiente error al intentar instalar mysql-server en Ubuntu 12.04

    sudo apt-get install mysql-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  python-libuser linux-headers-3.2.0-27 libqtwebkit4 python-central libuser1 linux-headers-3.2.0-27-generic-pae
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  mysql-server-5.5
Suggested packages:
  tinyca
The following NEW packages will be installed
  mysql-server mysql-server-5.5
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 125 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/8,737 kB of archives.
After this operation, 31.4 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package mysql-server-5.5.
(Reading database ... 312756 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mysql-server-5.5 (from .../mysql-server-5.5_5.5.29-0ubuntu0.12.04.2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package mysql-server.
Unpacking mysql-server (from .../mysql-server_5.5.29-0ubuntu0.12.04.2_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up mysql-server-5.5 (5.5.29-0ubuntu0.12.04.2) ...
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 it's a follow-up error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                            Errors were encountered while processing:
 mysql-server-5.5
 mysql-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Respuesta1

En su directorio de datos generalmente /var/lib/mysql debería haber un archivo .err donde pueda encontrar más detalles. Por favor, eche un vistazo a ese archivo. Primero verá muchos mensajes de inicio e información sobre cómo MySQL configura su directorio de datos. El problema comienza cuando te encuentras con una línea de mensaje de error o fatal. Si no tiene claro el significado, publique el resto del archivo.

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