I recently forgot to copy default.settings.php to settings.php when installing Drupal. And when the installer alerted me to my oversight, I read too fast and renamed the file instead of copying it, resulting in a critical PHP error when I returned to the installer. I know it should never be missing, but since the installer presently requires manual user action on the file (see #322250: Automatically copy default.settings.php to settings.php on installation) it gets exposed to problems like that. Besides... it happened to me already. :)

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dman’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

It seems to be biting a lot of people.
Solution hopefully underway at
http://drupal.org/node/208662