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
Nothing was working with reinstalls, removes, and others (I had no data to keep, not a fix; more of a data destruction process, big caveat there):
1005 mysql_install_db
1007 /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir='/var/lib/mysql
1008 /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir='/var/lib/mysql' (^z)
1009 bg
1010 mysql
1011 mysql_secure_installation
1012 mysql
1013 mysql -p
And viola; actually usable database.