Critical problem with common.inc when installing Drupal 7

By colinawright on 9 Jan 2011 at 00:18 UTC

I have uploaded Drupal 7 to GoDaddy - apparently successfully - but when I attempt to log into my site the following errors are reported:

Warning: Unterminated comment starting line 5342 in /home/content/76/7118176/html/includes/common.inc on line 5342

Fatal error: fatal flex scanner internal error--end of buffer missed in /home/content/76/7118176/html/includes/common.inc on line 5342

I deleted the comment beginning on line 5342 from common.inc but a new problem arose on a different line.

Six deletions later the problem shifted to a line with actual code so I could go no further.

Can someone identify the cause as the situation is CRITICAL and URGENT.

I can not revert to D6.

Comments

Have you tried re-uploading

alex commented 11 February 2011 at 05:28

Have you tried re-uploading includes/common.inc yet?

Hills Web

re-uploading

halone commented 28 February 2011 at 23:59

Hi
Re-uploading from where?
the version in drupal 7 is exactly the same!

We are actively developing something on Drupal 7, and haven't seen this issue. So, just a recommendation, you can checkout Drupal 7 latest source code and upload it again. Better way will be upload the tar.gz file and untar it in the server.

is your drupal installation on the root directory ??

wingstosky commented 2 March 2011 at 00:30

is your drupal installation on the root directory ?? .. if not try to install drupal on sub-domain instead of sub-folder ..

Same problem with common.inc

Guizlena Alvarado commented 4 February 2012 at 14:08

Hi, I have had the same problem twice in different projects. When I upload D7, I have tried in domains and sub-domains. When I try to upload D7 common.inc is the last one and never upload. I have deleted and started again but the same problem appears, so I had to uploaded D6 but my client wanted D7, but I cannot find the solution.