From: rich gray
Date: May 14 2011 3:32pm
Subject: MySQL v5.5.12 on Mac OSX - Server won't start...
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I have installed MySQL v5.5.12 Community Server on Mac OS X v10.5.8

When I try and start the server I get these messages before it aborts...

110514 17:16:14 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from 
/usr/local/mysql/data
110514 17:16:16 [Warning] The syntax '--log-slow-queries' is deprecated 
and will be removed in a future release. Please use 
'--slow-query-log'/'--slow-query-log-file' instead.
110514 17:16:17 [Warning] Setting lower_case_table_names=2 because file 
system for /usr/local/mysql/data/ is case insensitive
110514 17:16:17 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld: Table 'mysql.plugin' doesn't exist
110514 17:16:17 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run 
mysql_upgrade to create it.
110514 17:16:17 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
110514 17:16:17 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins
110514 17:16:17 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
110514 17:16:17 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
110514 17:16:17 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
110514 17:16:17 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda.
110514 17:16:19  InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start
110514 17:16:20 InnoDB: 1.1.6 started; log sequence number 1595675
110514 17:16:20 [ERROR] /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld: unknown variable 
'default-character-set=utf8'
110514 17:16:20 [ERROR] Aborting

110514 17:16:20  InnoDB: Starting shutdown...
110514 17:16:21  InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 1595675
110514 17:16:21 [Note] /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld: Shutdown complete

110514 17:16:21 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file 
/usr/local/mysql/data/xxxxxxxxx.local.pid ended

Anybody point me towards where I can get this issue sorted... Googling 
didnt turn up much ...
TIA
Rich

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