Install script failing when installing on Ubuntu

[sami]

Hi, I am following the wiki at this URL below and it does not appear to be working as described.

http://www.open-xchange.com/wiki/index.php?title=Quick_install_guide_for_the_Server_Edition_Ubuntu8.04

Where it mentions "To avoid confusion right at the start notice that Open-Xchange uses multiple administration levels", I guess this means I should be prompted for security details, but I was not - instead I was only prompted for a password for mySQL, which I did. The installation screen then finished and went back to the command prompt, shown below...

[...] > open-xchange-control open-xchange-easylogin \
> open-xchange-group-managerequest open-xchange-i18n open-xchange-jcharset \
> open-xchange-sessiond
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
sami@ubuntumail:~$

However, I tried the next step and it failed...

sami@ubuntumail:~$ /etc/init.d/mysql start

* Starting MySQL database server mysqld cat: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid: Permission denied
cat: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid: Permission denied
cat: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid: Permission denied
cat: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid: Permission denied
cat: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid: Permission denied
cat: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid: Permission denied
cat: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid: Permission denied
cat: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid: Permission denied
cat: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid: Permission denied
cat: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid: Permission denied
cat: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid: Permission denied
cat: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid: Permission denied
cat: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid: Permission denied
cat: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid: Permission denied
cat: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid: Permission denied
cat: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid: Permission denied

I then tried the install script again (sudo aptitude install mysql-server open-xchange etc.) in the hope I could re-run it, but it continues through and doesn't prompt for anything.

Where am I going wrong? Can I start again somehow? I am using Ubuntu 9.04 Workstation and Kernel 2.6.28-15-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP. Thanks.

[Martin Heiland]

Hi,

have you tried to start mysql with "sudo"?

Greetings

[sami]

Hi,

have you tried to start mysql with "sudo"?

Greetings

Well, now you mention it, I think I did, but now I'm back home and can't refer to the system. I *think* when I did this, mySQL started successfully, but the next stage didn't work. I'll try properly tomorrow and report back. Many thanks and apologies for my vague response.

Incidentally though, is there a way to remove the installation done so far, and re-install?