Drupal module names missing

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Here's a new one... I have a site running Drupal 5. I'm going to upgrade it to 6, and I just noticed that there are some blank lines on the modules page. The first four modules listed in the "Other" section have no names, just checkboxes. (Actually one of them also has the text "Required by: Forum (disabled), Tracker (disabled)".) The fourth module is actually turned on, but I have no idea what it is.

I just installed a fresh install of D5 just to see what the first four "Other" modules should be, and they're blank! So I'm guessing this is some sort of incompatibility with PH5.3

Has anybody else seen this?

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off-topic, but you know Drupal 7 is almost ready for release (it's at release candidate stage, so final release is imminent). You may want to consider skipping past D6 entirely to save yourself another upgrade at a later date. - Spudley
The Drupal system requirements page has detailed info about compatibility with different PHP versions. Drupal 6 did originally have issues with PHP 5.3, but this should have been dealt with since v6.14. However, that doesn't necessarily apply to non-core modules. - Spudley
@Spudley Ha ha, I was waiting for the D7 comments. :-) Yeah, I know. I'll probably hold off for a while on adopting D7. I actually haven't done a major version upgrade yet. I assumed that I'd have to go through D6... can you bypass a major version? - Mark
Yep, I did indeed find it was a PHP5.3 issue. I had to put quotes around some lines in four different modules/*.info files. I've been banging my head up against this for some time, and of course, as soon as I post my question here, the answer became apparent. Thanks for the replies! (BTW, they were actually core modules, but because they had formatting issues in *.info files, D didn't know where to put them.) - Mark
@spudley: although D7 will be released soon, you really need to be an expert if you want to use it for something complex. There are still quite a few strange bugs floating around. - googletorp

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PHP5.3 has issues with many Drupal5 .info files. You must put quotes around all the descriptive lines. See here for more info http://drupal.org/node/722430