percona cluster 5.6 install problem

MySQL & MariaDB Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.x
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When Installing Percona XtraDB Cluster on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - fresh OS install - I get the following errors:

Unpacking percona-xtradb-cluster-client-5.6 (from …/percona-xtradb-cluster-client-5.6_5.6.15-25.2-645.precise_amd64.deb) …
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/percona-xtradb-cluster-client-5.6_5.6.15-25.2-645.precise_amd64.deb (–unpack):
trying to overwrite ‘/usr/share/man/man1/mysql.1.gz’, which is also in package mysql-client-core-5.5 5.5.32-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)

I have three identical Dell servers, and did frexh 12.04 installs on all three. Followed exactly the same install process as on
[URL=“http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtradb-cluster/5.6/howtos/ubuntu_howto.html”]http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-x...ntu_howto.html[/URL]

Two of the servers failed with the error above and the third worked!!!

I tried fixing it with apt-get install -f but keep getting the same error.

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mmmmm. launchpad. ok. bug reported.

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In the end, it was not a bug. The problem was caused by an old version of /var/mysql/my.cnf, containing a few bad settings. Notably, I could not get percona 5.6 to start with

pid-file = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid

and these settings also caused problems for percona 5.6:

query_cache_limit = 1M
query_cache_size = 16M

After removing these lines all seems well. 3-system Cluster synced.

I hope this helps somebody else. Please be aware that apt-get remove --purge and the re-installing with apt-get install does not alter the my.cnf file and you could still have old settings…