redheads

Thanks for all of your work on this.

I just wanted to pipe up to clarify…
in my case *once* the blank screen happened, EVERYTHING led to a blank screen – short post, long post, edit post. Anything that called on post.php

The only way to recover and be able to post/troubleshoot again was to restore the database from a previous backup.

I also wanted to mention that I had a
:./././././././././././././././././././././tmp/*****.txt
problem in 2.0 when the first blank screen happened. I restored the database at that time, then upgraded to 2.5, but was still having the blank screen in 2.5 despite that previous ‘fix’ – I was using an imported/upgraded database (a working one from 2.0).

I think that is where it is related to the post being too long. Seems you should have a character-counter or just get a message that the post is too long… LOL

I was able to put a certain amount of text into the post before it crashes… One more word and it pushes it over into the ‘white screen of death’ so maybe it is not a ‘certain word’ issue as I thought.

I have found I can recover from the white screen **the first time it happens** IF I have put a SMALL amount of text into the post and saved the draft – then paste the rest, then publish. If it gives the white screen I can use the back button to get back to where I last was, but ONLY if I have a little bit of text there in a draft to revert to. Oh, and I found I can check the categories, set the time for posting, etc… Whenever (in the draft or the final) – that does not matter.

Still trying to find the post length override – no other fixes have worked…

Ok, maybe it is the length of that post, though am sure I have posted longer ones before…

this time it errored out – blank screen – and I used the back button to go back to my previously *saved* and only slightly shorter draft, took out a paragraph… it then worked. So I am off to figure out how to override the post length… LOL

Ok, following up – I checked on words which might be an issue and changed my htaccess file as was referenced in several posts, to no avail… still trying…

Oh, and during one of the recovery attempts I removed the entire plugins folder and replaced it with a freshly downloaded version. No help there. The only fix I have found is to roll-back my database.

I am having the same trouble – out of the blue two weeks ago. At that time I had made no upgrades since 2.0 but I was able to restore my database from a 2 day-old backup and go from there (that fixed the trouble). So I went ahead and upgraded to the newest version.

No problems again until today. Tried to post, blank screen, nothing would save, could not move forward. Restored database to a few-days-old version. That fixed the problem (again) – I posted two posts with no trouble (replacing those lost in the restore), then went to post the third and it did the same thing.

I restored again and, out of curiousity, tried to post the last post first. It went * blank screen * on me. I restored one more time, posted the other two posts again with no trouble. I am beginning to think the problem was in the HTML of the last post, so I post it after converting to plain text in notepad – stripped ALL HTML off. Posted the plain text. It blanks out.

When the screen freezes I can look in the SQL and see the post I am trying to post, but in the contents area there is simply a weird character sort of like an ‘A’ with squiggles on top. NOT the text I put there. The title is correct, but none of it shows in the blog.

Restored one more time, I can post as many test posts as I want as long as I do not post the one which causes the freeze… So the problem is somewhere in the content of this post, from what I can tell.

Woudl love to hear if anyone has ever figured this one out…