By markagray on

I upgraded from Drupal 6.12 to 6.13. Everything seems to be working correctly except for one thing. When I go to Administer->Site building->Modules, instead of getting the list of installed modules and their enabled/disabled status, I get the following error message:

Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in /var/www/.../sites/all/modules/admin_menu/admin_menu.inc on line 536

The admin_menu module is the first module in the list of my modules. One thing I failed to do during the update (as described in the 6.13 UPDATE.txt) was to disable all contributed modules.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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zachatharsis commented

I too am getting this error. I don't recall if I had it before 6.13 but I am now noticing it. I've gone through and checked a bunch of php settings thinking it's a memory config issue. Any help?

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zachatharsis commented

I just upgraded my admin_menu module to 1.5 and it seems to have fixed this for me. I was at 1.3

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johnTEN commented

im getting the same error and cant access admin pages as a result

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oneofakind2727 commented

I'm getting the same error too! Hard to configure site if you can't get at it.
Update!!! Yeah all you have to do is upgrade to 1.5 and it works. with version 6.x

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lionheart8 commented

Hi
So you published your site (http://drupal.org/node/264599) ?

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kobnim commented

In case it helps, I am able to reproduce the error with a few simple steps:
1. install a fresh copy of drupal 6.13.
2. upload the "admin_menu" module.
3. When I try to enable the "admin_menu" module, I get this error:

Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in .../sites/all/modules/mycontrib/admin_menu/admin_menu.inc on line 536

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jascott commented

For anyone new to this, you can execute this SQL in phpMyAdmin, drush or mysql to disable the admin_menu module:

UPDATE system SET status=0 WHERE name='admin_menu';

That will disable the 'admin_menu' module and allow you to get to the modules page.

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bcarson commented

Stumbled across this when I hit this error during a routine upgrade. Many thanks for this contribution!!

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aptereket commented

It helps, thanks for soluton.

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doomed commented

This brought back the admin panel for me!

After an upgrade from Drupal 6.10 to 6.28, and trying to enable all the modules again (including admin_menu 6.x-1.x-dev) i got the same problem as the original poster.

Now I'll be able to update admin_menu and then enable it again.

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purna_dey commented

I just upgraded my admin_menu module to 6.x-1.8 and it seems to have fixed this for me. I was at -1.8