Title: Fatal Error while activating plugin
Last modified: June 13, 2017

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# Fatal Error while activating plugin

 *  Resolved [chaitanyasatpute](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chaitanyasatpute/)
 * (@chaitanyasatpute)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-while-activating-plugin-2/)
 * Hi,
 * I tried to install “Reaction Buttons” on my machine and I am getting error as
   below
 * Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
    Fatal error:
   Uncaught ArgumentCountError: Too few arguments to function wpdb::prepare(), 1
   passed in C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\reaction-buttons\reaction_buttons.
   php on line 1494 and exactly 2 expected in C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-includes\wp-
   db.php:1291 Stack trace: #0 C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\reaction-buttons\
   reaction_buttons.php(1494): wpdb->prepare(‘UPDATE wp_postm…’) #1 C:\xampp\htdocs\
   wp\wp-content\plugins\reaction-buttons\reaction_buttons.php(567): reaction_buttons_upgrade_v200()#
   2 C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-admin\includes\plugin.php(1882): include(‘C:\\xampp\\
   htdocs…’) #3 C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-admin\plugins.php(164): plugin_sandbox_scrape(‘
   reaction-button…’) #4 {main} thrown in C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-includes\wp-db.php
   on line 1291
 * My machine configuration are as below:
 * Wordpress version: 4.8 with Twenty Seventeen theme. Same issue with WordPress
   version 4.7.5
    PHP version: 7.1.1 mysqli: mysqlnd 5.0.12-dev – 2015040
 * Please let me know if you need more details?
 * Can you please let me know what is the issue? I am looking for solution asap.
   
   Thank you Chaitanya

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 *  Plugin Author [Jakob Lenfers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakob42/)
 * (@jakob42)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-while-activating-plugin-2/#post-9222788)
 * Should be fixed in the current version.
 *  Thread Starter [chaitanyasatpute](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chaitanyasatpute/)
 * (@chaitanyasatpute)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-while-activating-plugin-2/#post-9223201)
 * Hey Jakob,
    Thank you very much for a quick fix. I am able to install & activate
   the plugin successfully. 🙂

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 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [chaitanyasatpute](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chaitanyasatpute/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-while-activating-plugin-2/#post-9223201)
 * Status: resolved