MySQL Job failed to start

Question

I\'m on Kubuntu 12.04, and after installing mysql via an apt-get (mysql ver: 5.5.35), i\'m trying to start mysql service, but I got this error:

sudo servi

Answer 1

In most cases, just purging the mysql-server package and re-installing it will do the job.

Run,

sudo apt-get purge mysql-server-5.1 mysql-common

followed by

sudo apt-get install mysql-server