Getting error “Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed” when starting MySQL

Question

I found many similar question on Stackoverflow but didn\'t get the exact error solution. My issue is when starting MySQL service on one of the Dedicated Centos 6.5 machine, I am

Answer 1

I fixed this issue by following:

• Login to server via SSH with root access.
• Navigate to /var/lib/mysql.
• If you see log files like, ib_logfile0 and ib_logfile1, rename or move them to some other folder.
• Stop and start the MySQL service by running sudo service mysql stop and sudo service mysql start

I hope this helps. Thanks