Thread:Project:Support desk/ 1.16 1054: Unknown column 'user options' in 'field list' (localhost) (2)/reply (2)

I have 6 wikis on SiteGround, my host. Five I succesfully upgraded from 1.17 to 1.20. The sixth had the message: Fatal error: Call to undefined method MediaWiki::getVal in /home/albanyh9/public_html/wikiBio/extensions/InputBox/InputBox.hooks.php on line 55

SO.. SiteGround restored my previous version of the wiki and it shows as v. 1.17.0. All looked good until I tried to add a user. Then I got: A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "User::addToDatabase". Database returned error "1054: Unknown column 'user_options' in 'field list' (localhost)".

This may or may not be a new problem, as I have not tried to add a user in several months.

Because I have several wikis, I could compare fields in a working wiki with the non-working wiki, and the USER table fields are identical, and 'user-options' is NOT found in either the working or non-working USER table. The list goes from user_newtalk to user_properties in both wikis.

Updating the database to v 1.2 did NOT work - (Siteground sends me to a utility called Softaculous to do upgrades - it thinks I am upgraded to v 1.2 so I can't try to upgrade again.)

Any and all suggestions are well. I need details as I have no idea how, or if I am allowed, to do command line things on my wikis. SiteGround has declared it a database problem and not within their scope of responsibility as the host of the site. Thanks, John  JElberfeld@aol.com

Any and all suggestions are welcome