Index: wp-includes/functions.php
===================================================================
--- wp-includes/functions.php	(revision 11901)
+++ wp-includes/functions.php	(working copy)
@@ -1771,7 +1771,31 @@
 	$installed = !empty( $installed );
 	wp_cache_set( 'is_blog_installed', $installed );
 
-	return $installed;
+	if ( $installed )
+		return true;
+
+	$suppress = $wpdb->suppress_errors();
+	$tables = $wpdb->get_col('SHOW TABLES');
+	$wpdb->suppress_errors( $suppress );
+
+	// Loop over the WP tables.  If none exist, then scratch install is allowed.
+	// If one or more exist, suggest table repair since we got here because the options
+	// table could not be accessed.
+	foreach ($wpdb->tables as $table) {
+		// If one of the WP tables exist, then we are in an insane state.
+		if ( in_array($wpdb->prefix . $table, $tables) ) {
+			// If visiting repair.php, return true and let it take over.
+			if ( defined('WP_REPAIRING') )
+				return true;
+			// Die with a DB error.
+			$wpdb->error = __('One or more database tables are unavailable.  The database may need to be <a href="maint/repair.php?referrer=is_blog_installed">repaired</a>.');
+			dead_db();
+		}
+	}
+
+	wp_cache_set( 'is_blog_installed', false );
+
+	return false;
 }
 
 /**
Index: wp-includes/wp-db.php
===================================================================
--- wp-includes/wp-db.php	(revision 11901)
+++ wp-includes/wp-db.php	(working copy)
@@ -255,6 +255,16 @@
 			'postmeta', 'terms', 'term_taxonomy', 'term_relationships');
 
 	/**
+	 * List of deprecated WordPress tables
+	 *
+	 * @since 2.9.0
+	 * @access private
+	 * @var array
+	 */
+	var $old_tables = array('categories', 'post2cat', 'link2cat');
+
+	
+	/**
 	 * Format specifiers for DB columns. Columns not listed here default to %s.  Initialized in wp-settings.php.
 	 *
 	 * Keys are colmn names, values are format types: 'ID' => '%d'
Index: wp-admin/maint/repair.php
===================================================================
--- wp-admin/maint/repair.php	(revision 0)
+++ wp-admin/maint/repair.php	(revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+<?php
+
+define('WP_REPAIRING', true);
+
+require_once('../../wp-load.php');
+
+header( 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8' );
+?>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
+<head>
+	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
+	<title><?php _e('WordPress &rsaquo; Database Repair'); ?></title>
+	<?php wp_admin_css( 'install', true ); ?>
+</head>
+<body>
+<h1 id="logo"><img alt="WordPress" src="../images/wordpress-logo.png" /></h1>
+
+<?php
+
+if ( !defined('REPAIR') ) {
+	_e("<p>To allow use of this page to automatically repair database problems, please add the following line to your wp-config.php file.  Once this line is added to your config, reload this page.</p><code>define('REPAIR', true);</code>");
+} elseif ( isset($_GET['repair']) ) {
+	$problems = array();
+	check_admin_referer('repair_db');
+
+	// Loop over the WP tables, checking and repairing as needed.
+	foreach ($wpdb->tables as $table) {
+		if ( in_array($table, $wpdb->old_tables) )
+			continue;
+
+		$check = $wpdb->get_row("CHECK TABLE {$wpdb->prefix}$table");
+		if ( 'OK' == $check->Msg_text ) {
+			echo "<p>The {$wpdb->prefix}$table table is okay.</p>";
+		} else {
+			echo "<p>The {$wpdb->prefix}$table table is not okay. It is reporting the following error: <code>$check->Msg_text</code>.  WordPress will attempt to repair this table&hellip;<br/>";
+			$repair = $wpdb->get_row("REPAIR TABLE {$wpb->prefix}$table");
+			if ( 'OK' == $check->Msg_text ) {
+				echo "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sucessfully repaired the {$wpb->prefix}$table table.<br />";
+			} else {
+				echo "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Failed to repair the {$wpdb->prefix}$table table. Error: $check->Msg_text<br />";
+				$problems["{$wpdb->prefix}$table"] = $check->Msg_text;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	if ( !empty($problems) ) {
+		printf(__('<p>Some database problems could not be repaired. Please copy-and-paste the following list of errors to the <a href="%s">WordPress support forums</a> to get additional assistance.</p>'), 'http://wordpress.org/support/forum/3');
+		$problem_output = array();
+		foreach ( $problems as $table => $problem )
+			$problem_output[] = "$table: $problem";
+		echo '<textarea name="errors" id="errors" rows="20" cols="60">' . format_to_edit(implode("\n", $problem_output)) . '</textarea>';
+	} else {
+		_e("<p>Repairs complete.  Please remove the following line from wp-config.php to prevent this page from being used by unauthorized users.</p><code>define('REPAIR', true);</code>");
+	}
+} else {
+	if ( isset($_GET['referrer']) && 'is_blog_installed' == $_GET['referrer'] )
+		_e('One or more database tables is unavailable.  To allow WordPress to attempt to repair these tables, press the "Repair Database" button. Repairing can take awhile, so please be patient.');
+	else
+		_e('WordPress can automatically look for some common database problems and repair them.  Repairing can take awhile, so please be patient.')
+?>
+	<p class="step"><a class="button" href="<?php echo wp_nonce_url('repair.php?repair=1', 'repair_db') ?>"><?php _e( 'Repair Database' ); ?></a></p>
+<?php
+}
+
+?>
+</body>
+</html>
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Property changes on: wp-admin/maint/repair.php
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Added: svn:eol-style
   + native

