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I was just browsing the system logs on my alestic Ubuntu 10.04 AWS EC2 production server, and found this:

daemon.log.1:Dec  9 22:45:42 server1 /etc/mysql/debian-start[865]: /usr/bin/mysqlcheck: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user 'debian-sys-maint'@'localhost' (using password: YES) when trying to connect
daemon.log.1:Dec  9 22:45:42 server1 /etc/mysql/debian-start[865]: FATAL ERROR: Upgrade failed

I'm assuming it came from a routine apt-get dist-upgrade. Is this something I need to address? It looks serious.

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it looks like you deleted the debian-sys-maint user, or the password for this user needs to be reset. The init scripts use this account for stopping/starting and maintanence. It expects the password for this account to match the password found in /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. The user is typically created having all privileges.

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Ok, thanks. Is there some way (once I've fixed the debian-sys-maint account) to re-run the upgrade process? – aidan Dec 13 '11 at 17:13
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dpkg --configure -a will configure any packages remaining to be configured. apt-get -f install will "fix" any broken dependencies if any were left over from the failed upgrade. I'd not expect broken packages, but it should never be harmful to run. – stew Dec 13 '11 at 17:15
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