On an installation of Drupal 6.10, updated code from 6.x-3.0-alpha7 to Filefield 6.x-3.0-beta3 and ran update.php. The SQL queries fired all OK changing the database according to updates 6100 - 6103. But as an authenticated user, I get a white screen on every page I try to load. Same for admin pages or regular page views. As soon as I log out via /logout, I can see pages and surf just fine as an anonymous user.

This also happened when updating from 3.0-alpha7 to 3.0-beta1.

Any more info you need??

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quicksketch’s picture

quicksketch
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Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Yes, you should turn on error reporting in your PHP installation so that we know what the problem is. The infamous "white screen" could be caused by any PHP error, and since I'm unable to reproduce, there's nothing we can do to know what the actual problem is.

To turn on error reporting, make sure the following two settings are on in your php.ini file:

error_reporting  =  E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE
display_errors = On
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After some troubleshooting with PHP errors, et al, found that the "white screen" was due to some config parameters for PHP and MySQL needing some adjustment.

Once done, installation and updating filefield from 6.x-3.0-alpha7 to 6.x-3.0-beta3 worked as expected. All content types using filefield were updated on the database side correctly. Site works as expected.

Tested adding new content using filefield:
Uploaded a file on node creation and on edit.
Both times the file uploaded correctly.
Rearranging weight worked on drag/drop
Viewing node showed file and was downloaded successfully

Couldn't find any flaws in the function of the module. The original problem was a PEBKAC problem.

Should be closed.

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Category: bug » support
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (fixed)

Ha, thanks gkallenberg for the followup!