Why don't you simply re-install MySQL. Re-installation of MySQL or
installation of a new version of MySQL should not damage the existing
database. Unless one of the database files has been damaged (iddata1?),
MySQL should be back up and running with the old database intact. There
is a repair
I foolishly installed KDE on Debian, which ... for some reason ...
decided to uninstall mysql-server, and in the course of doing so,
corrupted some tables (ibdata1, for example). Since these files are
corrupt, innodb won't start. I now have checksum failures, and mysql
won't start unless I delete t
