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Ubuntu 12.04 – service mysql start start: Job failed to start

Recently after a backup restore MySql server failed to start with the following error message:

start: Job failed to start

To fix start: Job failed to start I had to re-install the MySQL server.

I hope you have a backup of your data because you will lose all your MySQL data running the following commands

apt-get remove --purge mysql-server
rm -rf /var/lib/mysql
apt-get auoremove
apt-get get update
apt-get install mysql-server