White screen of death

I’ve been getting quite a few “white screens of death” where I get a blank white screen when I try to access the blog. This also happens sometimes when I try to post a comment. If any of you Wordpress monkeys have an idea why this might be, I’m all ears.

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11 Comments

  1. The Metropolitician your flag
    Posted March 12, 2007 at 12:11 pm | Permalink

    I am getting that on some of my Plugins pages, and from what I can tell, it’s the result of Dreamhost monkeying around and upgrading to a newer version of PHP5 and then panicking and redowngrading. Do you use Dreamhost? For some reason, I thought you did.

  2. Robert Koehler your flag
    Posted March 12, 2007 at 12:15 pm | Permalink

    Nope, I have a virtual dedicated account at Media Temple.

  3. jonnyh your flag
    Posted March 12, 2007 at 12:50 pm | Permalink

    It’s an all-new phenomenon for me, and I’m getting it too. Twice when I just tried logging in. Also at the aggregator.

  4. Nomad your flag
    Posted March 12, 2007 at 12:58 pm | Permalink

    When I logged in earlier, I got the Wordpress deafult theme, and thought maybe you were in between changing themes again.

  5. Robert Koehler your flag
    Posted March 12, 2007 at 12:59 pm | Permalink

    Nomad—Nope, I was just trying to isolate the problem… to no avail.

  6. SomeguyinKorea your flag
    Posted March 12, 2007 at 1:24 pm | Permalink

    What browsers do you use? I use Mozilla and it has been happening to me since the middle of last week. Clicking on ‘reload’ solves the problem. Don’t know if this is relevant, but I downloaded MS .NET Framework 2.0 at around the time it started.

  7. estebanko your flag
    Posted March 12, 2007 at 1:39 pm | Permalink

    See same symtoms here(occasionally) with Firefox 1.5 on Linux

  8. estebanko your flag
    Posted March 12, 2007 at 1:45 pm | Permalink

    Do you think it has anything to do with one of your Wordperss modules? If I knew little bit more about Wordpress, I’d browse through log files in search of anything susupicious.

  9. iheartblueballs your flag
    Posted March 12, 2007 at 2:02 pm | Permalink

    If you get any blue screens of death, it may be due to my balls.

  10. The Goat your flag
    Posted March 13, 2007 at 10:01 am | Permalink

    Firefox. Get it most often when I click on a name in the recent comment section.

  11. kpmsprtd your flag
    Posted March 13, 2007 at 1:42 pm | Permalink

    Getting it a lot tonight (Monday at 21:45 Pacific Daylight Time). Firefox 2.0.0.2 on the Mac.

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