(garthus i forwarded this to the list for the benefit of future archive searchers) On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:02:46 -0500, Gerry Arthus <garthus@lilrc.org> wrote:

What does this mean,

unknown column lock_tables_priv in 'field list'

I get this message when trying to install the latest r5 version of koha in a Debian environment. It does not allow the database to be installed.

lock_tables_priv is a column in one of the tables that has to do with access control. These tables (host, user, db, etc.) are part of the 'mysql' database. The lock_tables_priv field is not found in versions of MySQL prior to 4.0.2. The current stable version of MySQL is 4.1.8. Debian's stable distribution has 3.23.49 in it. To use a newer version while keeping debian stable on your system, see http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get sections 3.8, 3.9 and 3.10, or google "pinning debian" or some such. You might be able to ignore this error if it doesn't cause the updater to die, or remove the reference to lock_tables_priv in the updater script; but mysql 4.x is good to have anyway.