Server: CentOS, Mysql 5.5.
Bug observed after recent upgrade to phpMyAdmin: 4.1.2.
With a table that has a column with a '-' in the name: such as field-name.
Browse Table.
Click the column header to sort (either asc or desc) the table by this field with the '-' in the name.
Now browse some other table, or click somewhere else.
Then try to Browse this same table again: this error appears. And you are unable to access the table again.
Fixed with https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/0ae77814a7b1f2f9fa08aac741b0157fe6393a1d