Problem Installing MySQL Plugin

Hi,

I'm hoping someone can help me with this. I have seen there are quite a few threads on these forums with similar problems and I've tried some of the solutions and suggestions posted there but to no avail.

I've only recently installed OMV 1.19, and I'm trying to install the openmediavault-mysql 1.0.16 plugin from the OMV-extras repository. The installation seemed to go fine but when I tried to apply the settings I received a rather vague "An error has occurred" message and I was unable to log into the MySQL management tab.

I then tried to follow this guide, but I found that it would not accept the password from the /etc/mysql/debian.cnf file. I got the message "access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: yes)"
I also tried the password I had tried to set up in the webGUI and several others with the same result.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin from the webGUI. I also tried finding out/changing/bypassing the password from various sources I found on Google,
all with no success. I was concerned that I was making things worse so I tried completely removing the MySQL using instructions in another thread.
Now when I try to reinstall the plugin I get the following error:

================= Error =================
Failed to execute command 'export LANG=C; export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; apt-get --yes --force-yes --fix-missing --allow-unauthenticated --reinstall install openmediavault-mysql 2>&1': Reading package lists...


Building dependency tree...


Reading state information...


You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 mysql-server-5.5 : Depends: mysql-client-5.5 (>= 5.5.43-0+deb7u1) but it is not going to be installed
 openmediavault-mysql : Depends: mysql-server but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).=========================================

As is probably obvious, I quite the novice with OMV, and Linux in general, so can anyone put me out of my misery?

Thanks.

Zitat von ryecoaaron

Surfdude, did you try apt-get -f install?

I did and it didn't help. Unfortunately, I'm away for the weekend so I can't quote the exact response I received.

I'm considering reformatting the drive and re-installing OMV from scratch. Then I can try the MySQL plugin again with a clean slate.

Well, I reinstalled OMV and I'm back at square one.

How would I go about setting the data location in the extra options box?

Sorry, I haven't had much time to focus on this for the last couple of days, plus I encountered a (presumably unconnected) problem where I could no longer log into the webGUI.

I think I was getting confused between the data location and the data volume that has to be set in the plugin's settings. I have mine set up on a partition on the system drive (which I shrank using GParted) and wondered if that might be causing the problem. I haven't touched anything in the extra options or moved anything manually.