Localhost installation fatal error

The same thing happens for me – 3.0.1 fails with the above error at install.php.

3.0 works fine on the same setup.

(Using the latest MAMP on Mac OS X 10.4.11, should that make a difference.)

Exact same as above….

Me too.

MAMP 1.9 on Mac OS 10.6.4

I just tried with 3.0 and I’m still getting the error.

Workaround: Install using 2.9.2, then upgrade.

I got the same message using MAMP on my Mac. I tried redownloading WordPress 3.0.4 and no change. Any ideas?? I’m at a loss.

Same problem with me using MAMP.

I just stopped MAMP and restarted. Now it works fine. Could be that apache was somehow caching something from another local WP installation?

I had this problem and I fixed it by changing the PHP used in MAMP to an older version. For some reason the default PHP is not a stable version.

Restart MAMP effectively addresses the issue.