When enableing the Privatemsg module, Drupal does not create the database tables needed, but rather thinks they are there and tries to update them. I extracted the needed CREATE's from the privatemsg.install and made a privatemsg.mysql which works for me (no guarantee it will work for others, but if you don't have any prefix for your tables it probably will work by showing the tables into the database before enabling the module.

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mindless’s picture

mindless commented

can anyone reproduce this? why wouldn't privatemsg.install be used?
please post more detail (drupal/privatemsg/mysql/php versions, reproducible from new install?)

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Chill35 commented

I am able to reproduce this.

I have reproduced this three times : http://drupal.org/node/109206

The only way to re-install for a newbie is to :

- make a fresh Drupal install
- install the module in that separate installation the
- copy the 3 tables over to ....

- your target Drupal install (where you had disable and deleted the tables...)

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mindless commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

see my explanation in the node linked above.