Title: Error on wp-admin/profile.php in first time use
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Error on wp-admin/profile.php in first time use

 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-wp-adminprofilephp-in-first-time-use/)
 * Recently installed v1.2 but when I click the Profile button for changing the 
   random admin password I get the following error:
    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare
   veriflog() (previously declared in ./auth.php:7) in ..//wp-admin/auth.php on 
   line 6 How I correct this behaviour? I don’t have full control over the mysql
   server. Could it be a permissions error? Thanks in advance

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 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-wp-adminprofilephp-in-first-time-use/#post-59042)
 * bump
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-wp-adminprofilephp-in-first-time-use/#post-59051)
 * By the way, it’s a Sun server running SunOS 5.8 with php 4.3.6. I’ve tried commenting
   out the runonce lines that point to auth.php and profile.php but no joy.
    Any
   help would be appreciated. Thanks, Loauc.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-wp-adminprofilephp-in-first-time-use/#post-59088)
 * Solved!
    Commented out the runonce line in profile.php and then uploaded the 
   new file and now it works. Regards, Loauc.
 *  [snoopy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snoopy/)
 * (@snoopy)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-wp-adminprofilephp-in-first-time-use/#post-59418)
 * could someone from dev explain why this is happening. I have the exact same error.
   It is a common problem (from reading the forums) and I don’t like plasters.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-wp-adminprofilephp-in-first-time-use/#post-59429)
 * Maybe they still don’t know. Maybe I can go to IRC and ask directly. My naive
   explanation is that veriflog gets initialized previously in the install script
   so when profile is invoked it thinks veriflog can’t be initialized again.
    I 
   hope it gets fixed since what we’ve been doing is just hack the code without 
   much knowledge. Regards, Loauc.

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-wp-adminprofilephp-in-first-time-use/#post-59429)
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