Seeing this on a clean install of mysql-server inside a trusty Docker container: 160825 12:36:59 [Warning] Using unique option prefix myisam-recover instead of myisam-recover-options is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use the full name instead. 160825 12:36:59 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled. 160825 12:36:59 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled 160825 12:36:59 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins 160825 12:36:59 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.8 160825 12:36:59 InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO 160825 12:36:59 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M 160825 12:36:59 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool InnoDB: The first specified data file ./ibdata1 did not exist: InnoDB: a new database to be created! 160825 12:36:59 InnoDB: Setting file ./ibdata1 size to 10 MB InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait... 160825 12:36:59 InnoDB: Log file ./ib_logfile0 did not exist: new to be created InnoDB: Setting log file ./ib_logfile0 size to 5 MB InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait... 160825 12:36:59 InnoDB: Log file ./ib_logfile1 did not exist: new to be created InnoDB: Setting log file ./ib_logfile1 size to 5 MB InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait... InnoDB: Doublewrite buffer not found: creating new InnoDB: Doublewrite buffer created InnoDB: 127 rollback segment(s) active. InnoDB: Creating foreign key constraint system tables InnoDB: Foreign key constraint system tables created 160825 12:36:59 InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start 160825 12:37:00 InnoDB: 5.5.50 started; log sequence number 0 160825 12:37:00 InnoDB: Starting shutdown... 160825 12:37:01 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 1595675 160825 12:37:01 [Warning] Using unique option prefix myisam-recover instead of myisam-recover-options is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use the full name instead. 160825 12:37:01 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled. 160825 12:37:01 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled 160825 12:37:01 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins 160825 12:37:01 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.8 160825 12:37:01 InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO 160825 12:37:01 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M 160825 12:37:01 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool 160825 12:37:01 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda. 160825 12:37:01 InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start 160825 12:37:02 InnoDB: 5.5.50 started; log sequence number 1595675 ERROR: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'ALTER TABLE user ADD column Show_view_priv enum('N','Y') CHARACTER SET utf8 NOT ' at line 1 160825 12:37:02 [ERROR] Aborting 160825 12:37:02 InnoDB: Starting shutdown... 160825 12:37:03 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 1595675 160825 12:37:03 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown complete 160825 12:37:03 [Warning] Using unique option prefix myisam-recover instead of myisam-recover-options is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use the full name instead. 160825 12:37:03 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled. 160825 12:37:03 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled 160825 12:37:03 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins 160825 12:37:03 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.8 160825 12:37:03 InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO 160825 12:37:03 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M 160825 12:37:03 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool 160825 12:37:03 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda. 160825 12:37:03 InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start 160825 12:37:04 InnoDB: 5.5.50 started; log sequence number 1595675 160825 12:37:04 InnoDB: Starting shutdown... 160825 12:37:05 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 1595675 160825 12:37:05 [Warning] Using unique option prefix myisam-recover instead of myisam-recover-options is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use the full name instead. 160825 12:37:05 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled. 160825 12:37:05 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled 160825 12:37:05 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins 160825 12:37:05 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.8 160825 12:37:05 InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO 160825 12:37:05 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M 160825 12:37:05 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool 160825 12:37:05 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda. 160825 12:37:05 InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start 160825 12:37:06 InnoDB: 5.5.50 started; log sequence number 1595675 ERROR: 1050 Table 'plugin' already exists 160825 12:37:06 [ERROR] Aborting 160825 12:37:06 InnoDB: Starting shutdown... 160825 12:37:07 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 1595675 160825 12:37:07 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown complete