Update Status stopped working - white screen of death for all admin pages
| Project: | Update Status |
| Version: | 5.x-2.3 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
| Issue tags: | WSOD |
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After years without problems, update_status doesn't work anymore. I noticed it first because my cron didn't complete for more than two weeks and finally traced the problem to update_status.
I've already tried removing/reinstalling the update_status module (both 5.x-2.3 and 5.x-2.x-dev). As soon as I enable it, I get the white screen of death for ANY admin/ page (normal site content still works fine). Nothing else has changed in the configuration in the two weeks since the module stopped working.
I've seen the WSOD mentioned in connection with the update URL being blocked by the web hoster (#222073: Update Status causing Drupal to run very slowly), but I've tried manually accessing it from my server with wget http://updates.drupal.org/release-history/ and that works without problems. Any other ideas on how to track the problem down?
This is on Drupal 5.19 with Apache/1.3.41 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.31 OpenSSL/0.9.8j PHP/5.2.9 mod_auth_pam_external/0.1 FrontPage/4.0.4.3 mod_perl/1.29
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Meanwhile I updated to Drupal 5.20 and also tried the update_status 5.x-2.x-dev 2009-Oct-06 snapshot. Still no luck; every time I enable update_status, I get the WSOD.
I've asked my web hoster if they made any changes, but no.
I've tried debugging the WSOD but all the resources I found on Drupal WSOD debugging are about how to find the module causing it. But I already know it's update_status, so what next? How can I find out what's wrong inside update_status? There's nothing at all in the watchdog log or the Apache error or access logs.
Config: Apache/1.3.41 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.31 OpenSSL/0.9.8j PHP/5.2.11 mod_auth_pam_external/0.1 FrontPage/4.0.4.3 mod_perl/1.29