Phpmyadmin doesn't show "privileges" tab

Question

I have WAMP installed on Windows, and I can't seem to get the "privileges" tab to show in PhpMyAdmin no matter what. Reading other forum discussions and articles, I have done the following:

• Checked to make sure that I'm logged in as root
• Reinstalled wamp
• Reset my mysql users
• Run mysql check on users
• Cleared my cache

Through those tests, I have gotten the following error: Can't find file: 'user' (errno: 2). A google search for a solution to that proved futile. Any help would be appreciated

Update: Screenshot

Thanks

Answer 1

If you are sure that you are running as root, try clearing your cookies then refresh. This, AFAIK, is a bug affecting Google Chrome in particular but I can't say for certain for other browsers. Note that you can select what cookies to delete via the developers tab in Chrome. You need to delete only the localhost cookies.

Edit:

Oh no. So you've really deleted the 'user' table. My suggestion is that you either find CREATE scripts for the tables in database mysql or do a complete reinstall (as it appears, you don't have much DB's to lose anyway). Just for the record:

mysql> USE mysql;
Database changed
mysql> SHOW TABLES;
+---------------------------+
| Tables_in_mysql           |
+---------------------------+
| columns_priv              |
| db                        |
| event                     |
| func                      |
| general_log               |
| help_category             |
| help_keyword              |
| help_relation             |
| help_topic                |
| host                      |
| ndb_binlog_index          |
| plugin                    |
| proc                      |
| procs_priv                |
| proxies_priv              |
| servers                   |
| slow_log                  |
| tables_priv               |
| time_zone                 |
| time_zone_leap_second     |
| time_zone_name            |
| time_zone_transition      |
| time_zone_transition_type |
| user                      |
+---------------------------+
24 rows in set (0.00 sec)