Project I have been working today had a Magento version 1.1.3. We figured we could do an upgrade to the latest (as of time of this writing) version 1.1.6. Upgrade was to be done on clients real server, after upgrade we experienced some problems, or better yet, Admin interface did not work as expected. Each time we were to click the Save changes button we got Can’t retrieve entity config: core/flag notice message. After minute or two, I spot the error. Look at the provided screenshots.
Faulty database
Working database
Do you notice anything strange? In the faulty database table core_flag is missing. The problem we had was caused by LOCK TABLE rights on MySQL, or to be more precise… the lack of LOCK TABLE rights on database. Similar thing happens on clean Magento installation, when user has insufficient rights. How I fixed the problem? Well, the database was empty… so i delete it and run a clean install with 1.1.6 Magento files.
The guys @ Crucial Web Hosting helped out me out with the same issue after an SSH upgrade.
First thing to do when this occurs is to dump var/cache, THEN whip out the reinstall hammer.
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