The last trick did not do it for me. But removing ibdata1 (which had a length of zero and mysqld was complaining about that at startup) from /var/lib/mysql did solve the problem. Of course if instead of zero length it had useful stuff in it this is no solution.
The last trick did not do it for me. But removing ibdata1 (which had a length of zero and mysqld was complaining about that at startup) from /var/lib/mysql did solve the problem. Of course if instead of zero length it had useful stuff in it this is no solution.