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While working a Drupal project I faced a situation in which I could not access the login page. But I needed admin access to proceed with my task, so I had to look for a work-around and found that the login page could be accessed my manipulating the URL and adding the username.
After upgrading to 6.14 I had problems every time I did something with a module. A message about a fatal error would come up but if I went back a page it disappeared. Denial was working for me until two weeks ago. I changed a module (can't remember which one) and got a fatal error message. I did what it suggested and another came back, ad nauseam.
I'm taking over a couple of Drupal sites and my technical skill and knowledge of Drupal is still limited. Therefore, any advice is appreciated.
I had one 4.7 Drupal site, one 5.1 Drupal site and one 6.14. Recently, I've upgraded the 5.1 to 5.21 and 6.14 to 6.15 without any problem. The sites are running as expected.
All seems OK except the sidebars won't display and I had a error that suggested there was a problem with line 1771 in my theme inc file. This is the section of that file;