I am having a recurrent and strange issue with the last gallery I have installed. Once setup is over, everything runs smooth. But suddenly the setup script comes up on a white page: "Zenphoto needs to run setup but the setup scripts are not present. Please reinstall the setup scripts."

After some time, it starts working again.

Here's the more interesting part: I have another gallery on the same server but never had any issue as such.

So thinking it might be the installation corrupted then I installed another one. Just finished now and same story occurs again. Frustration is back and I honestly can't think of anything wrong I did.

Actually Setup tries to run when Zenphoto discoveres a change. There are other topics where people reported it as well that it does without a reason. I don't remember if there was a fix but it was somehow server related if I recall correctly. Please do a forum search as I don't have them at hand.

I tried to search but didn't find anything similar. Is there some particular words I need to search?

I have run the Database quick reference and here's the result:

admintoobject
MySQL Query ( SHOW FULL COLUMNS FROM [prefix]admintoobject ) failed. MySQL returned the error Table 'projecosteel._admintoobject' doesn't exist

I will have to pass this to my collegue who is the expert on this and will respond later.

I have some doubts. I have two galleries hosted on the same server. One works and the other gives this problem. But I have cross checked and found out the one that works is version 1.4.1.6 [8326] while the one that is giving this error is version 1.4.2.2 [9365]. My humble question is if this is just a coincidence.

Strange that I am the expert on the database reference which acrylian wrote. But the interesting thing there is that the way that routine works is that it asks for a list of tables from the database, then asks for the colum list of the tables that the database reported.

So apparently the database is returning that it has a table named admintoobject but then denying it when we ask for the columns of that table. Note also that the real name of the table is admin_to_object so somewhere the underscores have been lost.

Do you use "localost" as the server name for the database server? Maybe sometimes that does not work if requests are handled by a different server. See if there is a real server name for the database server.

Yes, the the database info tool has been written by me primarily and that is apparently a typo in a query.

Nevertheless, I am not the expert on the setup stuff and why it runs automatically unneeded which this topic is actually about and I was referring to. This db tool surely has nothing to do with that...:-)

Update regarding the database info. It does not use any direct queries directly at all. It gets what is there using $resource = db_show('tables');. So I have no idea where this table name without underscores could come from.

Best look at the database directly using a tool like phpmyadmin to see what is there.

This is the list of the tables i can se on MySQL admin:

_administrators
_admin_to_object
_albums
_captcha
_comments
_images
_menu
_news
_news2cat
_news_categories
_obj_to_tag
_options
_pages
_plugin_storage
_search_cache
_tags

Should I look anything specific?

Reverting to previous version. Let's see if it becomes stable. If so then I must think there's something wrong in the new version. Strange I am the only one facing this issue if so.

Reverted to previous version and so far no issues. Database quick reference works without giving any error.

By the way while I was trying to analyze the DB structure in MySQL I have noticed that in the last version the tables prefix is "-" while in the previous it was setup as "zp_". Don't know if this makes any difference.

I hope my issue will open eyes on possible issues some other users might face. Thanks!

If you update your install the prefix is not changed at all and for sure not automatically (which would make you loose respectively not use all your data entered before). Zenphoto uses what is set as the prefix in the config file withn /zp-data. What is set there?

I have alreadi reverted to the previous version for which fortunately I had kept a copy. So far so good. No errors and "Database quick reference" responds also with no errors. At this stage I ignore what could have been the issue.

In the old version the prefix was "zp" while in the new one is only "". Could this be the main cause of what has occurred?

See my first response please

In the old version there is "zp" while in the new downloaded one is "". But this was a new install with a new database.

Well, setup asks on first installation for the database credentials and also that prefix. Zenphoto - I am not sure if that is dev build only right now - uses by default now the folder name ZEnphoto is installed in if you don't enter your own to exactly avoid overwriting/reusing exisitng databases (before it was always "zp_" as a default" but you always could change it..

So change the suffix in the config file and rerun setup to use the old one.

As I told you there was no old database to overwrite as it was a new install on a new MySQL database. So everything was left to the setup and in fact I reached the GO and it worked for a day but become immediately unstable.

I have kept a copy of an old install and currently using that one which is stable and no issues so far.

Sure, I just explained where the prefix comes from. Nevertheless it remains sadly fact that we still don't encounter this issue so it is hard to do anything against it. This seems to be the needle and haystack thing...

Reading previous posts, I have two questions regarding the "new install" that didn't work:
– What was the name of the folder you used to install the new Zenphoto? Is there a space or a (non US-ASCII) special character in the folder name or in your domain name?
– I did a new install on an Apache server and it worked. Did you install it on a Windows server? Running Apache or not? MySQL or something different? If so, could that be the problem?