[Koha] Redirect loop in intranet at initial Koha install/setup

[jcoehoorn]

I'm a first time Koha user working through the instructions found here to get
Koha 3.06.04 running on Cent OS 6.2:

http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_3.6_on_Centos_6.2_i386

I'm using CentOS because this needs to run under Hyper-V. I don't have a
whole lot of linux experience.
In spite of that, I've made it through the instructions and have things
*almost* running. Almost. 

What happens is that when I try to visit the administration page (the final
line in the instructions) I get stuck in an http redirect loop. Koha's
normal/opac side of course shows that the site is in maintenance mode, as I
would expect prior to installation. I had to troubleshoot a number of other
issues to get that far, but I updated the instruction wiki as I went, so
someone else following that guide should end up in about the same place I
did.

Searching around the web (including but not limited to this list), the
closest thing I could find is this post:
http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/web-installer-fix-amp-new-feature-tt3065009.html#none

Reading that, I looked for a <kohaversion> element in
/etc/koha/koha-conf.xml. I couldn't find one, and I'm not sure where it
should go or what the contents of the element should be. There was a section
at the end that looked promising, but adding the element there with only the
version number for the contents hasn't helped.

The tail of my install log in /usr/share/koha/misc/ looks like this:
INSTALL_BASE=/usr/share/koha
INSTALL_ZEBRA=yes
INSTALL_SRU=yes
INSTALL_PAZPAR2=no
AUTH_INDEX_MODE=dom
RUN_DATABASE_TESTS=no
PATH_TO_ZEBRA=
USE_MEMCACHED=no
MEMCACHED_SERVERS=
MEMCACHED_NAMESPACE=

The tail of my /var/log/koha/koha-error_log looks like this:
[Mon Mar 12 16:56:02 2012] [error] [client 10.1.2.103] [Mon Mar 12 16:56:02
2012] 500.pl: DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Table
'koha.language_descriptions' doesn't exist at
/usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Languages.pm line 352.
[Mon Mar 12 16:56:02 2012] [error] [client 10.1.2.103] [Mon Mar 12 16:56:02
2012] 500.pl: DBD::mysql::st fetchrow_hashref failed: fetch() without
execute() at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Languages.pm line 353.
[Mon Mar 12 16:56:02 2012] [error] [client 10.1.2.103] [Mon Mar 12 16:56:02
2012] 500.pl: DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Table
'koha.language_descriptions' doesn't exist at
/usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Languages.pm line 346.
[Mon Mar 12 16:56:02 2012] [error] [client 10.1.2.103] [Mon Mar 12 16:56:02
2012] 500.pl: DBD::mysql::st fetchrow_hashref failed: fetch() without
execute() at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Languages.pm line 347.
[Mon Mar 12 16:56:02 2012] [error] [client 10.1.2.103] [Mon Mar 12 16:56:02
2012] 500.pl: DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Table
'koha.language_descriptions' doesn't exist at
/usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Languages.pm line 352.
[Mon Mar 12 16:56:02 2012] [error] [client 10.1.2.103] [Mon Mar 12 16:56:02
2012] 500.pl: DBD::mysql::st fetchrow_hashref failed: fetch() without
execute() at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Languages.pm line 353.
[Mon Mar 12 16:56:02 2012] [error] [client 10.1.2.103] [Mon Mar 12 16:56:02
2012] 500.pl: DBD::mysql::db selectrow_array failed: Table
'koha.systempreferences' doesn't exist at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Context.pm
line 516.
[Mon Mar 12 16:56:02 2012] [error] [client 10.1.2.103] [Mon Mar 12 16:56:02
2012] 500.pl: DBD::mysql::db selectrow_array failed: Table
'koha.systempreferences' doesn't exist at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Context.pm
line 516.
[Mon Mar 12 16:56:02 2012] [error] [client 10.1.2.103] [Mon Mar 12 16:56:02
2012] 500.pl: DBD::mysql::db selectrow_array failed: Table
'koha.systempreferences' doesn't exist at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Context.pm
line 516.
[Mon Mar 12 16:56:02 2012] [error] [client 10.1.2.103] [Mon Mar 12 16:56:02
2012] 500.pl: Install required, redirecting to Installer at
/usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Auth.pm line 595.


I'm stuck here what to try next. Any help appreciated.

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