starting mysqld is giving error as:
Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL Daemon.
/var/log/mysqld.log says:
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090909 13:17:27 mysqld started
090909 13:17:27 InnoDB: Database was not shut down normally!
InnoDB: Starting crash recovery.
InnoDB: Reading tablespace information from the .ibd files...
InnoDB: Restoring possible half-written data pages from the doublewrite
InnoDB: buffer...
090909 13:17:27 InnoDB: Starting log scan based on checkpoint at
InnoDB: log sequence number 0 29007405.
InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 0 29007405
InnoDB: Last MySQL binlog file position 0 1056, file name ./mysql-bin.000002
090909 13:17:27 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 29007405
090909 13:17:27 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Unknown collation '#46' in table 'host.frm' definition
090909 13:17:27 mysqld ended
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I have been hunting the issue since long but I am not able to figure out what is wrong with the installation/ its configuration.
Thanks in advance for any insight..
