[wp-hackers] "Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error." But what is the error?

[James Nachlin]

Yes.  I in fact do have another plugin defining widget()!  Renaming my 
functions made the error go away.

I think Otto is right.  The process dies right in plugins.php, at

include(WP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/' . $plugin);

The previous line's ini_set is not having the effect of turning on the 
display of the errors, in the case of a name collision between two 
function names in two different plugins.

If I fix that problem, I can activate the plugin.  If I deactivate the 
plugin, then intentionally add a new error to my plugin, I see the error 
in the iframe as I should.

Thanks again,
Jim

Andrew Nacin wrote:
> James mentioned to me he was running 2.9.2. I've looked into this further,
> and the issue appears to be that we only started including E_COMPILE_ERROR
> in default error reporting (including the plugin activation sandbox) in 3.0.
> Additionally, we previously overrode the error reporting level set up via
> WP_DEBUG in the sandbox. (In 3.0, we account for WP_DEBUG.) Thus, my guess
> is you have another plugin that is defining widget(), which throws the
> apparently unreported Zend error.
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