MySQL - Can't init tc log

/usr/sbin/mysqld: File '' not found (Errcode: 2)

151217 20:21:27 [ERROR] Failed to open log (file '', errno 2)

151217 20:21:27 [ERROR] Could not open log file

151217 20:21:27 [ERROR] Can't init tc log

151217 20:21:27 [ERROR] Aborting

Solution:

mysql-bin.index had become corrupted

edit this file to include all indexes did the fix

server was able to restart after that