I searched and found two new modules listed as compatable with 5.x and attempted to install them.
The first was Articles, the second was Book Review.

When I looked for these modules in the modules section of the admin, I found that they were not listed, but there were check boxes where they would have been (I did these one at a time to see if it wasn't just a funny module causing the problem and got the same result). So I checked the boxes, again one at a time to see what happened.

Book review shows up under Create Content, but not under the Content Management admin. When I click on it in Create Content, it says Page not Found.
As far as the other module, it appears to have not added or changed anything at all. I can find no reference to it.

Please note I am a raw newbie testing this out so I could very easily have broken something myself.

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rfitzpat commented

I had the same problem (I think). I wanted to install the CiviCRM module. So after dropping the folder into my modules directory, I went to enable the module. Under "Other", there was a blank entry with a checkbox, but no text with module name or description. I just checked the checkbox and submitted the form anyway, and it seems to have enabled the module just fine. So I think it's just a matter of the display of the module name/description.

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rfitzpat commented

I discovered the reason why this is happening is because the modules in my modules folder did not have .info files to tell drupal their names, descriptions, etc.

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agentrickard
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If the modules do not have .info files then they cannot be called Drupal 5 compatible. You should file issues with the modules in question.

However, shouldn't the modules page ignore modules that lack .info files? That might be a core bug.

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Conditi0n commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

http://drupal.org/node/101009