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

I did not want to run create_tables.sql as pointed in other answers. I added below line after Servers configuration.

/*
 * Servers configuration
 */
$i = 1;

Then I logged out from phpMyAdmin and logged in again. Problems were solved there. Logout seems to be important here.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

I made it working with some changes in /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php:

Add a $i=1 after /* server parameters */

/* Server parameters */

$i = 1

AND fix tablespaces of phpMyAdmin as written in

1932-table-phpmyadmin-pma-tracking-doesnt-exist-in-engine