MySQL 8.4.0-arm64 won't start on MacOS 14.4.1 Sonoma

[David Thompson]

I've just installed the MySQL Community Server package on my new Mac Mini.

The installation goes fine, but when the server tries to start, the following errors are seen in /usr/local/mysql/data/mysqld.local.err:

2024-05-06T09:15:40.563849Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-010736] [Server] Couldn't load plugin named 'keyring_file' with soname 'keyring_file.so'.

and a bit later...

2024-05-06T09:15:40.706064Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-000067] [Server] unknown variable 'keyring-file-data=/usr/local/mysql/keyring/keyring'.

Then it aborts the load process.

As far as I can tell, keyring_file.so is deprecated, so I'm not sure why it's trying to use it. I also can't seem to find where to download this plugin from, despite reading through various help articles.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers