ganzernsthaft

Hi everyone,

here’s another solution, but for Mac users. I was experiencing the same error. I’ve got a theme with a lot of custom functions in its functions.php and found the problem was caused by this file. Here’s what I did:

1. Renaming plugin directories one by one and trying to login. If problem still occurs, go on.
2. Go back to standard theme. If problem disappears, your theme might be the problem.
3. Reactivate your theme and rename functions.php. Reload Login. If the problem disappears you know its the functions.php that causes it.
4. Get smultron editor (it’s free), create a new file and set “Line endings” to “Unix” and “Text Encoding” to “UTF-8”
5. Now start copying functions from the old functions.php to the new one – one by one. After every single function upload the file and reload the login page. The error should disappear after the first upload.

Some notes: I didn’t code most of the stuff in the functions.php so I wasn’t sure if the problem was based on crappy coding or just encoding problems. It seems it was the latter, but others reported some custom functions won’t work with 3.9. I guess the best way is to check it the way I described above – step by step… For me, it worked 😉

Regards,
Chris