The active theme is broken. Reverting to the default theme

Try downloading a fresh copy of the Twenty ten theme.

OK, I’ve done that. Now let’s wait and see if it fixes it or if it still goes to the White Screen of Death. We’ll probably know in an hour or so.

Nope, still broken. I’m wondering if I shouldn’t dump the database and recreate it at this point. I’ve updated all the other source files with new copies of the originals. Not sure what else could be causing it.

Is there any way the wp-content directory could become corrupt or perhaps the permissions on the directory have changed preventing wordpress from reading from the directory. Renaming or deleting the wp-content directory will also cause this to happen.

I checked the wp-content directory and it was set to 755. I changed the permissions, then changed them back to 755 just to force a reload. No difference, still getting the white screen.

Just for grins I deleted all the wordpress files on the site, then uploaded the zip and ran the extract from my server console. Site came back up, then wordpress changed the theme and gave me the white screen again. About all I haven’t deleted is the database at this point.

I think it is a database issue. Must be some corruption there. I dumped my database, dropped all the tables, recreated and reimported my posts. We’ll see if it works now.

I guess i’ve a issue, something like yours. every administration link i click, i get white blank screen.

figured out i’m not the only one.
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/weird-behavior?replies=8

OK, in my case it looks to be fixed. I dumped the data out of my database, deleted the tables, recreated and uploaded the data and I’m back online and working now for a while. It had always failed in this time before so I’m calling it fixed.

hmm, that means you empty the tables or drop the tables? and recreated (??) and upload the data (??)
i don’t quite understand

Here was my procedure:

• Did an export on the tables and saved it to a local file
• Dropped all the tables
• Ran the install again to create the tables
• Emptied each table of the data that gets created at install
• Ran an import on the database to get the data back in

I know by doing it that way I ran the risk of having bad data or the problem in the data I exported, but it worked. My thinking was if that didn’t work then I would drop the tables again and just start from scratch. Thankfully it looks like I didn’t have too. Still running well this morning so it looks like the problem has been solved.

i see, okay.
so you did an export on the tables – the entire database and saved it to a local file.
dropped all the tables (even other site’s?)
ran the install again – wordpress installation (okay)
emptied wordpress’s tables
ran an import on the database (the export files with wordpress only or entire DB?)

TIA

here’s what I did:
1. Export all tables (Select all tables)
2. Dropped all tables, including other sites
3. Refreshed site, went into installation and installed WP
4. Emptied WP’s tables (Emptied, not Drop)
5. Ran an import on the database (all tables) using the export file

Went into WP configuration, everything’s still the same

Could it be due to wrong WP Collation (utf8-general) or wrong permission for WP directory?

I’m not sure. It could definitely be a permission issue. Are your directories set to 0755? It can probably be multiple things. A lot of times it is a plugin not behaving properly.

yeah, i did.
or has it got to do with the owner in unix (eg. must it be root/apache user/or any will do?)

when i’ve also went into properties > permissions > apply to enclosed files