Solved "XAMPP: Couldn't start MySQL!"

The error XAMPP: Couldn't start MySQL! seems to be an issue related to one or more corrupt log files; system running Red Hat. It was sorted out by the following steps.

Corrupt log file in MySQL

A review of the error log revealed the following 

170308 19:44:18 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /opt/lampp/var/mysql/ip-192-168-2-1.pid ended

170308 19:48:20 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /opt/lampp/var/mysql

170308 19:48:20 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.

170308 19:48:20 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled

170308 19:48:20 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use InnoDB's own implementation

170308 19:48:20 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3

170308 19:48:20 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 512.0M

170308 19:48:20 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool

InnoDB: Error: log file /opt/lampp/var/mysql/ib_logfile0 is of different size 0 5242880 bytes

InnoDB: than specified in the .cnf file 0 134217728 bytes!

170308 19:48:20 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error.

170308 19:48:20 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.

170308 19:48:20 [ERROR] Unknown/unsupported storage engine: InnoDB

170308 19:48:20 [ERROR] Aborting

Remove the corrupt log files

Since, the log file is corrupt, we will be removing the log file and try and start the session.

sudo rm /opt/lampp/var/mysql/ib_logfile0

sudo rm /opt/lampp/var/mysql/ib_logfile1

Then, start/restart lampp using 

/opt/lampp/lampp start

[or]

/opt/lampp/lampp restart

MySQL started again!