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Whenever I try to use the login for my domain, the page is blank with an error that states:

Installation Error:Table 'cms_module_eventslisting_templates' already exists with(CREATE TABLE cms_module_eventslisting_templates ( entry_id INTEGER NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, name VARCHAR(255), content TEXT, PRIMARY KEY (entry_id) )ENGINE=MyISAM)

This means I cannot log in to the admin panel, and it also means that the website
does not load in a browser. (Same error.)

I am using all the latest versions and have checked for upgrades to the modules as well. It appears that this occurred while I was installing a number of modules from the forge. The last looks like it was the eventslisting module.

I have read the other posts about this, but they do not explain how to undo it.

The basic issue is that I cannot uninstall if I cannot log in.

What should I do?

Thank you.

You can 'disable' a module by simply rename it's directory name in /modules/

So if module directory is /modules/eventslisting then rename it to /modules/_eventlisting for example.

Thank you very much. That saved the day. I was able to use Filezilla as a filemanger and delete the whole darn directory. Once that was done, everything immediately came back to normal again.

I had thought is was a corrupted database, but obviously it was not. For some odd reason, CMSMS keeps reading the same stuff if the stuff is bad, even though it isn't even in use. But just removing the directory of stuff that was created during the install atttempt gets rid of the problem. Wow.

This was one of the scariest, but easiest fixes I've ever done. Thank you for that good help.