Initialize specified but the data directory has files in it. Aborting.

[paul.namuag]

Hi Jeremy,

Can you check the permission of /var/lib/mysql? Aside from that double check the /etc/my.cnf if you have the right path for the data dir:

$ egrep ‘data.*dir|error.*log’ /etc/my.cnf

Then paste the last lines from that error log.

$ tail -n50