Getting errors when trying to start MySQL after installing

[Jon Christenson]

Getting errors when trying to start MySQL after installing:

141201 16:34:34 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
141201 16:34:34 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
/usr/sbin/mysqld: Table 'mysql.plugin' doesn't exist
141201 16:34:34 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it.
141201 16:34:34 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
141201 16:34:34 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins
141201 16:34:34 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
141201 16:34:34 InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO
141201 16:34:34 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
141201 16:34:34 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
141201 16:34:34 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda.
InnoDB: Log scan progressed past the checkpoint lsn 48941
141201 16:34:34 InnoDB: Database was not shut down normally!
InnoDB: Starting crash recovery.
InnoDB: Reading tablespace information from the .ibd files...
InnoDB: Restoring possible half-written data pages from the doublewrite
InnoDB: buffer...
InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 1595675
141201 16:34:34 InnoDB: Starting an apply batch of log records to the database...
InnoDB: Progress in percents: 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99
InnoDB: Apply batch completed
141201 16:34:34 InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start
141201 16:34:35 InnoDB: 5.5.37 started; log sequence number 1595675
141201 16:34:35 [Note] Server hostname (bind-address): '0.0.0.0'; port: 3306
141201 16:34:35 [Note] - '0.0.0.0' resolves to '0.0.0.0';
141201 16:34:35 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '0.0.0.0'.
141201 16:34:35 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist
141201 16:34:35 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/lib/mysql/vlslcdba02.pid ended


I tried this: "chown -R mysql /var/lib/mysql"