By EggPlant on

I'm running Drupal 6.3 on a WAMP server, and I tried adding the Simplenews module (6.x.1.0 Beta 5) via Home/Administer/Site building but after hanging for about 30 seconds, Drupal returned a page saying something about a timeout and the one-line error mentioned the MySQL DB. Aferwards, I'm missing most Drupal Admin functionality links. For instance- in Content Management the features end at "Feed aggregator" and in Site Configuration the links end at "Logging and Alerts". It's like all features after the letter "L" vanished.

This Drupal site had been running fine for a few months and over the last few weeks I've added the Flash, SWF Tools and FCKeditor modules and had no problems. Has anybody heard of any kind of problem like this? Is there some way to "repair" a Drupal install to get the core features back? Thanks

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cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

I don't know but the first two things that I would try are:

- Run update.php again to rebuild the menus.
- Increase php memory (http://drupal.org/node/207036)

EggPlant’s picture

EggPlant commented

I ran updata.php and got all of my menus back. I also increased the php memory. Afterwards, I enabled the Simplenews module one feature at a time (instead of both Simplenews and Simplenews Actions at the same time). It prompted me to also enable the Trigger module which I did. Not sure what the problem was, but all of my functionality is back and Simplenews is working.

Thanks everybody for the tips.

cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

Probably php ran out of memory or timed out while a module was adding itself to the menu. Core Drupal is OK with 16M, but with a dozen additional modules you may need 32M (depending on the modules).

kyart’s picture

kyart commented

Hi

I got similar problem when I changed the core Drupal code a little bit. Specifically, I changed theme.inc file in order to customize my site. Then I was able to use most of the Admin function, but few page started to return blank page. As I checked the log, it turned out that there was some PHP syntax errors taking place, but since it was not critical errors, the server tried to display the page, and it stopped sending the page, I mean HTML tags, half way through.

I replaced my core drupal packages and the problem was gone.

arh1’s picture

arh1 commented

i'm assuming you went back and disabled the Simplenews module already. but if you haven't yet b/c you're no longer able to from the Drupal admin section, you can do it from the MySQL command line (or via phpMyAdmin). off the top of my head, i believe the query would be like this (please test/adjust as needed):

update system set status=0 where name='simplenews';

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Check list for you:

1) Set page time out to 60 seconds in you php.ini
2) In your .htaccess or in .conf file, set php_value memory_limit = 96M

3) Post your feedback here.

:)
Beautifulmind

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