phpMyAdmin error: Table doesn't exist in engine

Question

I installed XAMPP today on Ubuntu 14.04. I tried to create a new database in phpMyAdmin but received the error

#1932 - Table \'phpmyadmin.pma__tracki

Answer 1

Since none of the solutions worked for me I did the following:

1. Open Nautilus (Linux's file explorer) with root privileges: sudo nautlius.
2. Navigate to the mysql directory: /opt/lampp/var/mysql.
3. Delete the phpmyadmin folder. This is the phpmyadmin database in phpMyAdmin
4. Copy the content of the create_tables.sql (found at /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin/sql) file to another one on the desktop called sql.sql
5. Open the MySQL command line interface: /opt/lampp/bin/mysql -uroot -p
6. Then in the mysql promp I ran the script to create the database phpmyadmin with source /home/user/Desktop/sql.sql

That solved the problem for me.