title: MySQL server start issues on Mavericks
body: <p>I am having difficulty using MySQL on my MacBook, I am trying to start my server using <code>sudo mysqld_safe</code> and this results in the following output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>140131 00:03:02 mysqld_safe Logging to '/usr/local/var/mysql/david-mbp.err'.
  140131 00:03:02 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/var/mysql
  140131 00:03:03 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /usr/local/var/mysql/david-mbp.pid ended
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I had a look at this <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10610875/mysql-pid-ended-cannot-start-mysql">question</a> and it has all the same issues and methods I have tried to resolve my issues. His fix was the upgrade to Lion but I am already on the latest version of Mavericks so this is not a viable solution for me.</p>
  
  <p>I have googled around and reinstalled numerous times but haven't managed to find why I get this issue. </p>
  
  <p>How can I fix this issue?</p>
  
  <p>Edit:</p>
  
  <pre><code>140131 00:03:02 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/var/mysql
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 0 [Warning] TIMESTAMP with implicit DEFAULT value is deprecated. Please use --explicit_defaults_for_timestamp server option (see documentation for more details).
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Warning] Setting lower_case_table_names=2 because file system for /usr/local/var/mysql/ is case insensitive
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
  /usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.6.15/bin/mysqld: Can't find file: './mysql/plugin.frm' (errno: 13 - Permission denied)
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it.
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] InnoDB: Using CPU crc32 instructions
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [ERROR] InnoDB: ./ibdata1 can't be opened in read-write mode
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [ERROR] InnoDB: The system tablespace must be writable!
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error.
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [ERROR] Unknown/unsupported storage engine: InnoDB
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [ERROR] Aborting
  
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Binlog end
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'partition'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_SYS_DATAFILES'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_SYS_TABLESPACES'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_SYS_FOREIGN_COLS'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_SYS_FOREIGN'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_SYS_FIELDS'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_SYS_COLUMNS'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_SYS_INDEXES'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_SYS_TABLESTATS'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_SYS_TABLES'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_FT_INDEX_TABLE'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_FT_INDEX_CACHE'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_FT_CONFIG'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_FT_BEING_DELETED'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_FT_DELETED'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_FT_DEFAULT_STOPWORD'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_METRICS'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_BUFFER_POOL_STATS'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE_LRU'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_CMP_PER_INDEX_RESET'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_CMP_PER_INDEX'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_CMPMEM_RESET'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_CMPMEM'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_CMP_RESET'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_CMP'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_LOCK_WAITS'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_LOCKS'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_TRX'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'BLACKHOLE'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'ARCHIVE'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'MRG_MYISAM'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'MyISAM'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'MEMORY'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'CSV'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'sha256_password'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'mysql_old_password'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'mysql_native_password'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'binlog'
  2014-01-31 00:03:03 13223 [Note] /usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.6.15/bin/mysqld: Shutdown complete
  
  140131 00:03:03 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /usr/local/var/mysql/david-mbp.pid ended
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>ls -l /usr/local/var/mysql output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>-rw-rw----   1 dave      admin  50331648 30 Jan 22:35 ib_logfile0
  -rw-rw----   1 dave      admin  50331648 30 Jan 22:35 ib_logfile1
  -rw-rw----   1 dave      admin  12582912 30 Jan 22:35 ibdata1
  drwx------  81 dave      admin      2754 30 Jan 22:35 mysql
  drwx------  55 dave      admin      1870 30 Jan 22:35 performance_schema
  -rw-r-----   1 _mysql    admin      4784 31 Jan 00:03 david-mbp.err
  drwx------   2 dave      admin        68 30 Jan 22:35 test
  </code></pre>