1214 error when restoring from dump to empty database

Question

So I'm trying to recreate my developer copy of a database. I do drop database somedb and create database somedb , so it's all empty. I exit mysql and pipe the dump file into mysql like so:

mysql -u root -pfoopassw somedb < newdumpfile.sql

Almost immediately I get the following error and the process is aborted:

ERROR 1214 (HY000) at line 99: The used table type doesn't support FULLTEXT indexes

Since I don't have a pre-existing table that can have a fulltext incompatible type , does it mean that my dump file is corrupt?

I try to alter the table type ( alter table sometable ENGINE = MyISAM; ) of the two tables that have been created, giving me this error:

ERROR 1217 (23000): Cannot delete or update a parent row: a foreign key constraint fails

Answer 1

I've learned that the problem is that I'm using an outdated mysql for the dump file, version 5.5 while I should be using 5.6. I will try to upgrade.