[wp-forums] This is a little cheeky but...

[Otto]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:15 PM, esmi at quirm dot net <esmi at quirm.net> wrote:
> Oh - that makes so much sense! Problem is I can't access php.ini. Looks like
> the host doesn't allow for account-specific php.ini files and I'm 3 steps
> away from the host IYKWIM. I'll pass this on and see if the client's client
> will get their hosts to look into it.
>
> Talk about Chinese Whispers...

I would look closer at Sergey's info. An incomplete upgrade (with old
files in the includes folder) could cause this problem as well because
of the invalid ini_set command.

Try a full manual overwrite of the core files.

-Otto