Problems with automatic tasks

Have you tried:

– deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem? If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

– switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems?

– resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin? Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

– re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a fresh download of WordPress?

– increasing your available memory?

• I’ve deleted all my inactive plugins.
• I’ve downloaded a fresh copy of WordPress 2.9.2 and uploaded the entire wp-admin and wp-include folders (the previous upgrade used the automatic method straight to the server).
• I’ve deactivated all my plugins, except for Subscribe2.
• My memory is already at 64MB and nothing seems to be dying from memory shortage as it did when I was on 32MB. There is also nothing related to memory in the error log.

How are scheduled posts published (by what)? Maybe by tracing the chain of events we can find the culprit.

Thanks again,
Gal

I’ve just realized that my blog’s gmt_offset option was empty. I had set the time zone on the General options page to “Brisbane”, which put the string “Brisbane/Australia” into the option timezone_string and CLEARED gmt_offset.

I’ve set the gmt_offset to 0 manually, but that didn’t make a difference either.

Could the cron option be corrupted? Is there a way to reset it without losing valid information?

Does ANYBODY have an idea how to unravel this mystery?

Still missing post and backup schedules ??

Oddly enough, things seem to be working for me now. I’m thinking it’s something on the server. At least it’s gone now.