Using search craters WP 3.0

  • Help! I upgraded our blog to 3.0 on Friday. After one serious glitch (forgot to turn off the plugins…and one was bad) it was smooth sailing – until the publisher/editor in chief tried to use the search function. It completely craters the blog – but only on that specific browser/computer. In other words, if you use search on a Mac running Chrome, for instance, you’ll see it hang. Reloading gets you a white screen or one with the words “Failure to Connect to Database.” This goes on for five to ten minutes instead of seeing your search results. If you open a copy of Safari or Firefox on the same computer, they are unaffected. Other computers experience no problem. If you try search on a different computer or browser, the problem is repeatable.

    No idea what’s going on here – but it’s a problem that can be duplicated on Macs and PCs, regardless of your choice in browsers. Is this weird or what?

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  • 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 the available memory?
    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/memory-bump/
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/253495#post-1017842

    Thread Starter captaindigital

    (@captaindigital)

    It looks like it’s not just my blog…when I couldn’t find this thread by scrolling down, I tried the “search” link. I got an error message too. According to my hosting guy, he says the search is triggering a call for 110% of available hooks into the DB. It churns until it runs out of resources, then generates an error message. Sounds like a flaw in WP 3.0 to me.

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    Sounds like a flaw in WP 3.0 to me.

    Or it could be what esmi pointed out. Have you done any troubleshooting?

    Not being cheaky but search is working even on the most underpowered VPS I have access to. Underpowered as in “I can’t believe that tiny vps even runs PHP…”

    Thread Starter captaindigital

    (@captaindigital)

    Yep. Been there. Done that.

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