MySQL 5.5.24

May 8, 2012 · Guillaume Plessis

The packages of MySQL 5.5.24 are now available for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures. It fixes an undisclosed security issue (thanks Oracle) and some other bugs as well.

As usual, please read carefully the full Changelog before upgrading.

Note : the packages have been updated to include a missing init script. Sorry for the mess.

Jockl May 8, 2012
Thank you Guillaume for updating! I had to restart MySQL manually but this wasn’t really a problem… ;)
Fred Broce May 8, 2012
Works fine. I did have to manually restart.
Barbaros May 8, 2012
It stopped the mysqld server and forgot to start back :) So I started manually, everything is fine here
Cameron May 9, 2012
This package seems to be missing /etc/init.d/mysqld. Is this an oversight, or am I missing something?
- Guillaume Plessis May 9, 2012
  @Cameron : thanks for noticing this. New fixed packages are coming.
Justin Franks May 9, 2012
@Cameron, it should be in /etc/init.d/mysql (not mysqld).
Cameron May 9, 2012
@Justin, that didn’t exist either. I copied the version of it from the github repo and it works fine, it’s just somehow missing from the package, or it’s not installing properly on my system.
Puckel_ May 9, 2012
Yop Gui !
Ca va ? Même soucis, le mysql qui ne se relance pas automatiquement. Si tu as besoin de la trace, cd /IRC ;)
Tchou
res5it May 9, 2012
Hi all… U just upgraded myslq to my production server and I cannot start it with the following error:
Starting MySQL database server: mysqld/usr/sbin/mysqld: Can’t read dir of ‘/etc/mysql/conf.d/’ (Errcode: 2)
Please help
Thank you in advance
- Guillaume Plessis May 9, 2012
  @res5it : please create the directory manually
res5it May 9, 2012
Just did that before your post, it’s ok now :) Thank you very much
Vladimir Laskov May 14, 2012
please fix this problem %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
mysql
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 1034 Server version: 5.5.24-1~dotdeb.1 (Debian)
Copyright (c) 2000, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Type ‘help;’ or ‘\h’ for help. Type ‘\c’ to clear the current input statement.
mysql> FLUSH LOGS; ERROR 1105 (HY000): Unknown error
Guillaume Plessis May 14, 2012
@Vladimir Laskov : Did you activate the error logs in your my.cnf?
Shane Chambers May 24, 2012
I’m sure this is only a problem if you have logging turned on.
I just had a problem with the install. During the install it seems to create two mysql-bin files with root privileges. And then it’s can’t access them when it tries to start the server after updating the software.
I eventually got around this issue by turning on the sticky bits on user/group (6700) on the /var/lib/mysql directory. Combined with shutting mysqld down before the upgrade, it finally worked.
Guillaume Plessis May 24, 2012
@Shane Chambers : thanks for this useful analysis. I’ll take a further look at this issue.
b.miguel11 June 4, 2012
@Guillaume Plessis : What are your plans for including MySQL 5.5.25 in DotDeb?
Guillaume Plessis June 4, 2012
@b.miguel11 : MySQL 5.5.25 has just been released. Please let me find some free time to package it.
Are you impacted by a critical bug that needs an urgent update?
b.miguel11 June 4, 2012
@Guillaume Plessis : Certainly not :-) It is just that I am freshly-installing a server and I would like to install the latest version :p But apart from that no worries :p

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