Comment 5 for bug 1206648

Hello,

This is currently not reproducible in 5.6.13-60.6. Notice that this release had a change of init script, and we started using a script that may overcome this issue:

* Stopping MySQL (Percona Server) mysqld

/usr/sbin/mysqld
:
Can't read dir of '/etc/mysql/conf.d/' (Errcode: 2 - No such file or directory)

Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted
...done.

It's clear that the error surfaced when executing it so it may be a problem with the old init script. Notice that also the directory IS created during installation.

For 5.1/5.5 the issue is not rreproducible: notice as well that in the pasted examples the install failed for other reasons:

Aborting downgrade from (at least) 5.6 to 5.1.
If are sure you want to downgrade to 5.1, remove the file
/var/lib/mysql/debian-*.flag and try installing again.

in both cases, not related to the original bug description.