Missing menu items after upgrade from 1.3.9h to 1.5.4

[savedario]

I am upgrading a site using the suggested Zen Cart upgrade procedure and when I installed SO 4.0.10, I could not see any of the expected menu items.
After installing SO files, I saw no message about its installation.
When I used the backups to repeat the steps, I noticed what seems like a loop-hole in the process:

• The old database is upgraded (successfully) and the new table admin_pages is populated with the default list of menu pages.
• After installing SO, init_so_config.php tries to determine whether an installation is necessary.
• Because a 'configuration_group_title'='Super Orders' exists (and indeed SO was installed in the old version), no actions are taken and all SO menu items are missing because they do not exist in the table admin_pages.

Does the above explain my problem or did I miss a step ?

I solved it by hacking init_so_config.php and force the creation of admin_pages rows once and manually executed the creation of the configuration_key SO_DB_INSTALLATION.

[cooler0918]

Could you elaborate a bit more on how you did the hack for use newbs. I am looking at the file and I can't figure out what to change.