Title: Fatal Error When Uploading New Theme
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Fatal Error When Uploading New Theme

 *  [lindsaydot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lindsaydot/)
 * (@lindsaydot)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-when-uploading-new-theme/)
 * I was uploading a new theme today and received a SCARY fatal error message. This
   message appears whenever I try to click ANYWHERE in my WordPress back end or 
   attempt to visit my public URL.
 * I’ve copied and pasted the entire message below… Hoping that someone can help!!
 * Thanks 🙂
 * Lindsay
 * –
 * Warning: require_once(/nas02/HostingVol2/81/43781/lindsaydot.com/dac_wordpress/
   wp-content/themes/genesis/lib/init.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open
   stream: No such file or directory in /nas02/HostingVol2/81/43781/lindsaydot.com/
   dac_wordpress/wp-content/themes/nomadic/functions.php on line 3
 * Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/nas02/
   HostingVol2/81/43781/lindsaydot.com/dac_wordpress/wp-content/themes/genesis/lib/
   init.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/share/pear’) in /nas02/HostingVol2/81/43781/
   lindsaydot.com/dac_wordpress/wp-content/themes/nomadic/functions.php on line 
   3

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-when-uploading-new-theme/#post-2280146)
 * Your new theme is broken. Try switching to the Twenty Eleven theme by renaming
   your current theme’s folder in wp-content/themes and adding “-old” to the end
   of the folder name using [FTP](http://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients) or whatever
   file management application your host provides.
 *  [jkorzenk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkorzenk/)
 * (@jkorzenk)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-when-uploading-new-theme/#post-2280383)
 * This is the error message I received:
 * Fatal error: Cannot redeclare bp_tpack_wp_pages_filter() (previously declared
   in /home/wordpress/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bp-template-pack/
   bp-template-pack.php:322) in /home/wordpress/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/
   themes/sense-and-sensibility-bp/bp/bp-functions.php on line 29
 * This was after I tried to activate Buddy Press and change my desktop theme. I
   was also trying to install a new sidebar following instructions from WordPress.
   I literally can’t do anything to my site. The only way I can see it is by using
   the back button on Firefox and even that won’t let me make any changes. Is there
   something I can do?

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 * Last reply from: [jkorzenk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkorzenk/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-when-uploading-new-theme/#post-2280383)
 * Status: not resolved

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