Resolution (original post below): I had downloaded the development version thinking it would be much more up to date -- October vs early Spring. Instead it's just broken. That was the problem. Nuking it an replacing it with the "recommended" version worked. (I did have to manually delete the cache_styles table again, though, before the new (i.e., old) version would properly install. Alas.
Hi Folks,
I've searched but do not come up with an explanation. I'm running a pretty new, pretty clean D7 install. I wanted to load the media modules, which require Styles. The problem is, I can't load Styles. Whenever I try, I get an error which seems to suggest that a database object already exists, particularly a table called cache_styles.
EDIT: There is a cache_styles table in my MySQL database, along with a bunch of other cache_* tables.
Here's the exact error message:
DatabaseSchemaObjectExistsException: Table cache_styles already exists. in DatabaseSchema->createTable() (line 621 of /var/www/drupal7/includes/database/schema.inc).
Okay, so I went to phpmyadmin and dropped the cache_styles table and tried again. This time I got this error: