Cannot use phpmyadmin in XAMPP I have installed XAMPP 5.5.30 for Linux(64 bit), which consists of phpmyadmin version 4.5.1. For the first time when I went to phpmyadmin, saw a warning at the bottom saying


  The phpMyAdmin configuration storage is not completely configured,
  some extended features have been deactivated. Find out why. 
        Or alternately go to 'Operations' tab of any database to set it up there.


I didn't give much attention to that. I tried creating a database. At that time I got another error,


  Table phpmyadmin.pma__tracking doesn't exist in engine


I tried to create the database with the same name again and this time the error was 


  Can't create database,database exists


So I refreshed the list of databases and my new database was there and when I clicked on it a "Loading..." loader appeared and it remained there forever. So I tried opening the database in a new tab and this time I got,


  1932 - Table 'phpmyadmin.pma__column_info' doesn't exist in engine


After some research I came to know that all these tables (that did not exist) are a part of the phpmyadmin database. So I clicked on it and I got 


  Table phpmyadmin.pma__tracking doesn't exist in engine


I am stuck now. As the phpmyadmin database cannot be selected I cannot add or edit any tables in it. Somebody please suggest a way to fix this issue.
This appears to be a problem with a recent XAMPP release, my suggestion is to roll back to a previous XAMPP version.

That being said, the phpMyAdmin way of fixing it would be:


Comment out the pma__tracking line in config.inc.php. You may also need to comment out the pma__column_info line as well. This will allow you to start phpMyAdmin without the constant error messages.
Start phpMyAdmin normally
Run the included sql/create_tables.sql (making modifications if needed to match the XAMPP naming scheme)
Remove the comments in config.inc.php


Of course, I can't say whether that will also work for XAMPP.