First, I'm not sure where to report this problem. I've been using Drupal for a few years now and never experienced a problem this bad. A site of mine (development, thankfully) is completely out of operation at the moment. I was in the midst of changing some modules, the admin/build/modules/list submission did not complete [url: admin/build/modules/list/confirm]. Left me with a blank page. I've seen this before not enough memory for the number of modules I have load presumably? But this time when I navigated away many of the admin pages no longer load completely. That is they load some subset of the items that they ought to load. But the rest are just missing... If I try to navigate to the URLs directly, I get a response from some one of the parent admin pages.

I tried to navigate to the backup and migrate page to restore a backup but the url just returns the top-level backup and migrate admin page. I try to navigate to the admin/build/modules url and I just see a portion of the admin/build page. I have no ideas what's going on or how to fix it.

Unfortunately I had recently (a couple weeks ago) tried the AES module and was storing the backups aes encrypted, so now without access to the Backup and migrated restore page it looks like I just have to reinstall. Like I said this was just a dev environment so nothing but my time was lost.

Any ideas? Suggestions?

I think its a problem that the modules page not finishing its load could cause such a problem... if it really has to do with that first issue.

I attached a few screenshots of some standard admin screens so you can see things like:
1. The modules page /admin/build/modules is just displaying the /admin/build url
1a. The /admin/build url is not loading the entire page, for instance the Modules entry is missing and several other core features
2. the Backup modules admin/content/backup_migrate/export/advanced url is just displaying the admin/content/backup_migrate page.

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skilip commented

Hi,

I don't think this is the right place for this issue, while it hasn't got anything to do with the 'module page' module, correct me if I'm wrong. Do you have a backup of the database? Restoring a backup of the database is the best shot you currently have. Other than that, you can try to disable some modules (especially Devel and related modules) by setting their status to 0 in the databases system table. After that go to the module page (admin/build/modules) in order to rebuild the theme, menu and module registry.

I hope this helps, good luck!!

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just_an_old_punk commented
Priority: Critical » Normal

I don't know what the right place is for this... The circumstantial evidence says that this occurred due to the modules page not finishing its processing of the Save action.

Unfortunately I can't use the recent backups because I tried out the AES module to encrypt them and can't access the restore page. I did disable all the modules in the DB but it did not help because I can no longer access the admin/build/modules page. As I stated originally, whatever strange thing happened many of the core pages including the modules page just do not seem to exist anymore.

I did actually resolve this by upgrading from drupal 6.14 -> 6.15. (A last ditch effort to avoid having to rebuild the entire site, even though it was just a dev site.) So, I have a suspicion that something may have happened to some of the files in the 6.14 release, as overwriting the files solved the problem.