So What I Was Able To Do Was Install Percona

So what I was able to do was install Percona, which is a drop in replacement for mysql. They have packages for 5.5, 5.6 and 5.7 available for Ubuntu 17.04. I installed version 5.5 and was able to bring up my database. From there I could upgrade to 5.6 and eventually mysql 5.7. However, somethings still were not working correctly, like emojis were not being stored correctly, so I attempted to fix that, and things broke again. I couldn't start the database and nothing I did seemed to help. Luckly, I made a backup of the data when I successfully had 5.5 running. I reverted everything back to 5.5 and have since upgraded to Percona 5.6. I'm staying here for now. Things appear to be stable and working.

Upgrade Was A Success Still Cant Get Mysql Working Ive

Upgrade was a success, still can’t get mysql working. I’ve determined now though that the old version, 5.5 isn’t direclty upgradable to 5.7. I now need to figure out if I can do that, or do I try to restore into a 5.7 instance with backups?

Reboot Time

Reboot time …

60% And Nothing Has Blown Up Yet

60% and nothing has blown up yet 🤞🏼

So Attempted To Upgrade My Server From Ubuntu 1410 To

So, attempted to upgrade my server from Ubuntu 14.10 to 16.10. Everything seemingly went smoothly, except mysql. For some reason it didn't get upgraded. No big deal, I thought to myself, I'll just install it. Well, it turns out there's some sort of problem with mysql and Ubuntu 16.10. I Google'd and I Google'd, tried a bunch of different suggestions, nothing worked, mysql just wouldn't properly install. I'm now in the process of upgrading to Ubuntu 17.04. I looked through the release notes for 17.04 and there's no mention of any issues with mysql, so hopefully this will solve my problem. When there's no way back, you go through.