Installing 5.3.0 on Unbuntu 11.04 the following occurs

sudo apt-get install mariadb-server-5.3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libdbd-mysql-perl libmariadbclient16 libmysqlclient16 mariadb-client-5.3
mariadb-client-core-5.3 mariadb-server-core-5.3 mysql-common
Suggested packages:
mailx mariadb-test
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libdbd-mysql-perl libmariadbclient16 libmysqlclient16 mariadb-client-5.3
mariadb-client-core-5.3 mariadb-server-5.3 mariadb-server-core-5.3
mysql-common
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 22.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 56.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/repo/5.3/ubuntu/ natty/main mysql-common all 5.3.0-mariadb101~natty [10.7 kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/repo/5.3/ubuntu/ natty/main libmariadbclient16 amd64 5.3.0-mariadb101~natty [1,517 kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main libdbd-mysql-perl amd64 4.016-1 [140 kB]
Get:4 http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/repo/5.3/ubuntu/ natty/main libmysqlclient16 amd64 5.3.0-mariadb101~natty [4,356 B]
Get:5 http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/repo/5.3/ubuntu/ natty/main mariadb-client-core-5.3 amd64 5.3.0-mariadb101~natty [94.1 kB]
Get:6 http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/repo/5.3/ubuntu/ natty/main mariadb-client-5.3 amd64 5.3.0-mariadb101~natty [1,760 kB]
Get:7 http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/repo/5.3/ubuntu/ natty/main mariadb-server-core-5.3 amd64 5.3.0-mariadb101~natty [4,719 kB]
Get:8 http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/repo/5.3/ubuntu/ natty/main mariadb-server-5.3 amd64 5.3.0-mariadb101~natty [14.5 MB]
Fetched 22.8 MB in 6s (3,556 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package mysql-common.
(Reading database ... 458566 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mysql-common (from .../mysql-common_5.3.0-mariadb101~natty_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libmariadbclient16.
Unpacking libmariadbclient16 (from .../libmariadbclient16_5.3.0-mariadb101~natty_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libmysqlclient16.
Unpacking libmysqlclient16 (from .../libmysqlclient16_5.3.0-mariadb101~natty_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libdbd-mysql-perl.
Unpacking libdbd-mysql-perl (from .../libdbd-mysql-perl_4.016-1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package mariadb-client-core-5.3.
Unpacking mariadb-client-core-5.3 (from .../mariadb-client-core-5.3_5.3.0-mariadb101~natty_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package mariadb-client-5.3.
Unpacking mariadb-client-5.3 (from .../mariadb-client-5.3_5.3.0-mariadb101~natty_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package mariadb-server-core-5.3.
Unpacking mariadb-server-core-5.3 (from .../mariadb-server-core-5.3_5.3.0-mariadb101~natty_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Setting up mysql-common (5.3.0-mariadb101~natty) ...
Selecting previously deselected package mariadb-server-5.3.
(Reading database ... 458747 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mariadb-server-5.3 (from .../mariadb-server-5.3_5.3.0-mariadb101~natty_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Setting up libmysqlclient16 (5.3.0-mariadb101~natty) ...
Setting up libmariadbclient16 (5.3.0-mariadb101~natty) ...
Setting up libdbd-mysql-perl (4.016-1) ...
Setting up mariadb-client-core-5.3 (5.3.0-mariadb101~natty) ...
Setting up mariadb-client-5.3 (5.3.0-mariadb101~natty) ...
Setting up mariadb-server-core-5.3 (5.3.0-mariadb101~natty) ...
Setting up mariadb-server-5.3 (5.3.0-mariadb101~natty) ...

• Stopping MariaDB database server mysqld [ OK ]
  110805 19:01:37 [Note] Plugin 'PBXT' is disabled.
  110805 19:01:37 [Note] Plugin 'InnoDB' is disabled.
• Starting MariaDB database server mysqld [fail]
  invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
  dpkg: error processing mariadb-server-5.3 (--configure):
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
  ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
  Processing triggers for menu ...
  Errors were encountered while processing:
  mariadb-server-5.3
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Prior to installing I attempted to remove any possible problems with other versions of MySQL or Maria on the system by completely removing using Synaptic then doing the following

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get --fix-missing install
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install sysvinit-utils