To make a short story, I had the same exact error message on step 2 of installation, I checked and some files had 0 bytes in size on my ftp directory. I cleared the directory, re-uploaded and voila! Blame it on my ftp client…
To make a longer story, this happened because I was having trouble uploading due to my ftp client / hosting being slow (was using Cute FTP). I downloaded Filezilla which I’m using often at work, re-uploaded the files, but with the option to overwrite only if newer. Maybe that’s a bug in Filezilla, because the files having 0 bytes are not overwritten (it probably checks only for the timestamp and doesnt compare file sizes). Anyhow, I deleted all the files to make sure, re-uploaded and now it works.
Another open-source success story ?? Thanks for this great blogging tool, I have 3 blogs up using WordPress for different topics :p
