Init script fails.

TLDR = /etc/init.d/mysql start fails after the following line (line 22), 
and I would like to fix it so that init starts mysqld automatically.

Problem line:

|./lib/lsb/init-functions|

This is included in nearly all init scripts, and other init scripts work 
just fine.  Putting breadcrumbs in this function, it will execute all 
the way down to this line:

for hook in $(run-parts --lsbsysinit --list /lib/lsb/init-functions.d 2>/dev/null); do

      [ -r $hook ] && . $hook || true

  done

I can echo $hook in the loop, and it works. But, anything after 'done' 
fails. strace shows me that the files referenced in the loop are opened, 
read, and then closed, but this final line may not be getting executed.

  FANCYTTY=

  [ -e /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh ] && . /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh || true

##Background:

This happend after I attempted to install KDE on this workstation. KDE 
decided to uninstall mysql-server (for some strange reason), which 
caused all sorts of problems including corrupt tables, which I restored 
from a backup.

Everything is not fixed, EXCEPT the init scripts do not work.

I narrowed it down to this line by putting "echo 'ok'" after each 
statement as it executes from top to bottom to see the last executing 
line. At first, it died because /usr/bin/mysqld_safe did not exist. 
apt-get remove --purge [insert all mysql packages here] followed by 
fixing all broken dependencies,and then apt-get install mysql-server 
mysql-client fixed that.