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

Changing the values of innodb_buffer_pool_size and innodb_log_file_size didn't work for me.

Moving ib_logfile0 and ib_logfile1 files didn't help either.

What did help was:

> service mysql stop

Edit my.cfg and add innodb_force_recovery = 1

> service mysql start
> service mysql stop

Comment the innodb_force_recovery = 1 line.

> service mysql start

And voilá. (I should note that I have no idea if this involves any data loss or not)