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What I did to rectify the problem was this:
1. I went to rentacoder.com and posted a bid wanted for someone to fix my blog.
2. A guy who is active in the wordpress community bid $25 which seemed reasonable – he was based in the US, knew wordpress, seemed like he was “into” wordpress too, so I modified my password, gave it to him, and let him fix it.
3. He fixed it pretty quickly. The steps he took were:
i) He looked in the error logs (which are contained in the /logs subdirectory of the root – I did not know these logs existed, and finding out about them alone is worth the $25 I believe).
ii) the logs indicated that wordpress was complaining about a missing file “Failed opening required ‘/blog3/wp-content/advanced-cache.php'”
iii) He then uploaded this file and the whole system came to life.

I have no idea how my upgrade failed to include that file, but anyway, now its fixed and that’s the main thing. Feel free to chip in for my $25 if this fixes your problem :);)

when you say access /wp-admin/ directly, I assume you mean:

Type:

https://www.gibblog.com/blog3/wp-admin/

into my browser address bar. If you mean something else please let me know. I did try typing the above into the address bar and I still get a blank page.

Looks like this is resolved now. GL.

As a side note, I’d like to grumble about the WordPress support search engine. I entered “Error establishing a database connection” into the search box, and this post did NOT come up. It was only by chance that I came across it.

I’m having this problem too. It started at almost exactly 10PM last night. I;m pretty sure that the problem is with the mySql database, because I can log into my wp site via the yahoo administration client, but cannot run the mySql admin software.

I was able to fix my issue. What I did was go to the Plug Ins tab on WordPress, then make a note of which ones were enabled. Then I disabled them all. My RSS feed now works. Then I set about reenabling them. I only had 3 plugins since this is my first blog so it wasn’t too much trouble. (The odd thing is I’m pretty sure I reenabled all the ones I disabled and it still works – not 100% sure about that tho’)

I went into that file, found the
w_handle_upload function, and I see a sort of
switch statement, with extensions mapped to “MIME-types”
[whatever they are!]

I found the following entries.
‘asf|asx|wax|wmv|wmx’ => ‘video/asf’,
‘avi’ => ‘video/avi’,
‘mov|qt’ => ‘video/quicktime’,
‘mpeg|mpg|mpe’ => ‘video/mpeg’,
I atteempted to look up the mime-type for .3g2 files at this site,
https://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=3G2
but the mime-type entry was blank.

I think that .3g2 is a quicktime type, so I added into line 3 as follows:
‘mov|qt|3g2’ => ‘video/quicktime’,

Now I am able to upload fine. Thanks for the tip!

I am a wordpress newbie. I am having the same issue, i.e.
I cannot subscribe to my own RSS feed, and getting the same
error: “XML Parsing Error: xml processing instruction not at start of external entity”

I believe my issue is that refered to by dubsix, i.e. I used the
themeswitcher plugin. Now, how do I go about fixing it?

Additional TidBit – an even easier solution was to just use
the Yahoo File Manager to do the upload (instead of doing it
from the wordpress page). The yahoo file manager was happy to
upload the .3p2 file and then I was able to use WordPress to link
to it.

Thanks for the tip. I did the “rename file locally/upload/rename file extersion serverside” and it worked.

I’m using WordPress 2.0 I think (be gentle with me it’s my first blog ??