Welcome to my first post on dev.to! My goal is to share my experiences and solutions, hoping it might help someone out there facing similar challenges. As I continue to refine my posts, I appreciate your understanding and patience.
The Challenge
While setting up MySQL on WSL, I encountered the following error:
mysqld is running as pid 2657
sleep: cannot read realtime clock: Invalid argument
dpkg: error processing package mysql-server-8.0 (--configure):
installed mysql-server-8.0 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server:
mysql-server depends on mysql-server-8.0; however:
Package mysql-server-8.0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package mysql-server (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
mysql-server-8.0
mysql-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
The error is caused by things being not properly installed/set up, so the solution involves basically uninstalling and reinstalling Mysql related packages.
Step 1: Begin by purging all related MySQL packages:
sudo apt-get purge mysql*
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Alternative for Step 1 (if the above doesn't work):
sudo apt purge mysql-client-5.7 mysql-client-core-5.7 mysql-common mysql-server-5.7 mysql-server-core-5.7 mysql-server
Step 2: Update and upgrade your system:
sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade && sudo apt autoremove && sudo apt -f install
Step 3: Reinstall MySQL:
sudo apt install mysql-server
I hope this guide helps you navigate and resolve similar MySQL issues on WSL. Let's continue to learn and share together!
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