4.5.0f Fedora Core 4 Smarty Issue

[BrentR]

I'm running:
FC4
PHP 5.1.2
mySQL 5.0.18
Apache 2.0.54

I've done clean installs with 4.5.0e and 4.5.0f, and I can log in just fine, however (at least) the admin setting and studio screens are largely blank. What I'm seeing is errors like following:

Oct 30 11:58:15 services httpd: PHP Warning: Smarty::include() [<a href='function.include'>function.include</a>]: Failed opening 'cache/smarty/templates_c/%%09^09B^09BB77A6%%Home.tpl.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/var/www/html') in /var/www/html/crm/include/Smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1265
Oct 30 12:04:40 services httpd: PHP Warning: Smarty::include(cache/smarty/templates_c/%%3D^3D8^3D8BA76D%%DetailViewUser.tpl.php) [<a href='function.include'>function.include</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/html/crm/include/Smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1265

I'd expect this to be a permissions issue (and yes I've done chmod -R 777 *), but alas there are files being dynamically written to the cache/smarty/templates_c, but they don't have the filename expected. So instead of %%09^09B^09BB77A6%%Home.tpl.php I see files named like wrtgVrTUm.

I've got this running nicely on my Mac OS X box with almost identicall settings, but for some reason things aren't working on Linux. The only other difference I can think of is that the Linux box is running HTTPS instead of HTTP...

Any ideas?

[BrentR]

Allow me to answer my question since nobody else seems to have.

This issue is in the php.ini settings. In particular with the line:

disable_functions = rename

I hope this saves some people pulling out their hair...