I got this error while restoring data from Netapp snapshot backup , I restored the last days backup
on a new directory on the NFS , after the restoring the MySQL data files from Netapp I tried to start
the mysql , MySQL Started , I noticed that queries are failing , on checking the error log
I got the error ERROR 1033 (HY000): Incorrect information in file for an Innodb table
I realised that I had not created the tmp file as per given in the my.cnf , I created the /tmp
file made mysql owner of the /tmp file , restarted the MySQL and error was gone.
the other possible reasons are
1) actual corruption of the table
2) Innodb plugin regsitration failed. reasons may be various