MySQL Bugs: #46174: MySQL Upgrade 5.0.41 to 5.1.36 error

Bug #46174	MySQL Upgrade 5.0.41 to 5.1.36 error
Submitted:	14 Jul 2009 15:32	Modified:	15 Jul 2009 6:41
Reporter:	vijay karan	Email Updates:
Status:	Duplicate	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Installing	Severity:	S2 (Serious)
Version:	5.0.41	OS:	Linux (RHEL5)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
[root@icsc sw_mysql]# rpm -Uvh MySQL-server-community-5.1.36-0.rhel5.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]

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A MySQL server package (MySQL-server-community-5.0.41-0.rhel5) is installed.

The current MySQL server package is provided by a different
vendor (MySQL AB) than Sun Microsystems, Inc..  Some files may be installed
to different locations, including log files and the service
startup script in /etc/init.d/.

Upgrading directly from MySQL 5.0 to MySQL 5.1 may not
be safe in all cases.  A manual dump and restore using mysqldump is
recommended.  It is important to review the MySQL manual's Upgrading
section for version-specific incompatibilities.

A manual upgrade is required.

- Ensure that you have a complete, working backup of your data and my.cnf
  files
- Shut down the MySQL server cleanly
- Remove the existing MySQL packages.  Usually this command will
  list the packages you should remove:
  rpm -qa | grep -i '^mysql-'

  You may choose to use 'rpm --nodeps -ev <package-name>' to remove
  the package which contains the mysqlclient shared library.  The
  library will be reinstalled by the MySQL-shared-compat package.
- Install the new MySQL packages supplied by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- Ensure that the MySQL server is started
- Run the 'mysql_upgrade' program

This is a brief description of the upgrade process.  Important details
can be found in the MySQL manual, in the Upgrading section.
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error: %pre(MySQL-server-community-5.1.36-0.rhel5.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping MySQL-server-community-5.1.36-0.rhel5

How to repeat:
N/A

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Duplicate of bug #45534

I am working on bug#45534, which addresses this very problem.

I expect to have the fix working in our builds by next week.

Any build started after that should profit from it.