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I installed TextControl…
https://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/TextControl

But the simple 3-part installation doesn’t change anything on my admin pages.

I don’t see it under the Options or withing the Manage Posts.

Sorry, still a noob at WP.

The weird part is that I installed this on a third-party server without any problem. I’m running the latest MySQL and PHP 5 (RC 2), but not sure why this would make any difference. I can’t find any requirements issue, so I have no idea why this is not working. Any ideas?

It truly is amazing that this version got released. I don’t understand how some people are not having these issues. It is sad because WP has such great potential. I’m stuck waiting for the next release because Mambo, MoveableType and Blogger just do not appeal to me.
Maybe together we can make enough of an uproar to get this fixed?

I was able to get install.php?step=3 working by commenting out line 746 that calls the upgrade_all() function. Based on the above Apache log, I assume this file lived in wp-admin/upgrade_functions.php
Of course, this only solves part of the problem people are having with WP… The wp-login.php page is still buggy. I can’t remember how many times I’ve reinstalled, but only one time on one install was I able to log in.
I’ve now reached a dead end because every request to the wp-login.php page is a 404 in the browser and Apache reports more problems…
[notice] child pid 23004 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[notice] child pid 23025 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
* Not sure if that is one page request or two.

I’ve got the same problem, but I’m installing it myself. My Apache logs show two bugs in the WP code…
### FATAL ERROR WHEN INSTALLING ###
PHP Fatal error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array in /home/htdocs/wordpress/wp-admin/upgrade-functions.php on line 705, referer https://www.myurl.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php?step=2
### PARSE ERROR WHEN INSTALLING ###
PHP Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/htdocs/wordpress/wp-login.php on line 337, referer: https://www.myurl.com/wordpress/
I’m amazed that this version of WP even got through QA, let alone released. Assumingly, this will be a problem for everyone who downloads this release. We should get to the bottom of this and get the code re-released. I really, really want to use WP, but this is unacceptable. Is there a previous version that can be downloaded?
If not, I may resort to using Mambo…
https://www.mamboserver.com/

Sounds to me like WordPress is not ready (aka useless) if there are login issues. How can this be getting so much hype when there seems to be a major usability issue overlooked? How are people even able to hype it up if you can’t log in to use it?

Sorry, never used IRC before… Never found a need and nobody explained the benefits.
I started to look at the wp-login.php code and may have found my issue… There is a for loop to set variable names listed in the $wpvarstorest. I outputed the value of each variable and all are blank. The next code section performs a switch($action), which is not set so nothing happens.

I’ve tried using different browsers, closing them, clearing cache, uninstall/reinstall WP… all end up with the same result.
I get a Step 3 and that page’s body is blank. According to the documentation, the only screen left in the install process is a page that give you a random-generated password for admin.
I then used phpMyAdmin to change the password in the wp_users table. I then went to /wordpress/ to confirm it was even loaded. When I click “login”, it doesn’t do anything. I then clicked “register” and created a normal user. On the last page of the registration process, I’m presented w/ a button to login… again nothing happpens. I confirmed that my new normal user was added to the wp_users table.
There must be something wrong with /wordpress/wp-login.php
Good thing I’m commited to getting WordPress running, or this would be enough to drive me to MoveableType or Blogger. I’m familar w/ PHP, but not the WP system so I have no idea where the problem could be.
Please tell me this is a common problem.