It would be nice if someone actually REPLIED…
I have this same problem Jeremie 🙂
And after finding no answers on the forums I decided to investigate myself by putting braks in the code until I finally tracked down the problem.
Well it has been a long day for me and I haven’t actually fixed it but I have located the precise point of failure in my particular installation of WP 2.03
I have found that the function:
wp_update_post() doesn’t seem to exist.
It is called from the script: admin-functions.php
At the point that this function is called, the page goes blank due to timing out. A break before this point stops the script normally.
I have the same problem (with version 2.0.2 and 2.0.3) like you for one week.
Does anyone have a solution? Thanks for help!
Might take a look at 2 issues that pop up:
1) For 2.0.3 get the 2.0.3 tuneup plugin (sometimes I call this the Are you sure? plugin).
2) Try deleting everything in Options:Writing Update Services.
I tracked down the problem.
In the file:
wp-includes/functions-post.php
On line 196 there is the code:
spawn_pinger();
This is calling a function to open a socket on my server to send a ping. But it freezes at certain times of the day.
To eliminate the problem I commented out the code like this:
// spawn_pinger();
Another problem I have is the Dashboard not loading. This is due to the Technorati rss feed not responding. So I commented out the code for that too. This code is in:
wp-admin/index.php
Now the admin area of my blog works speedily again.
Hahooser: spawn_pinger() = ‘Options:Writing Update Services’
(it’s pinging the services listed there, and at least one of them is timing out).
Thanks for your suggestions. The “WordPress 2.0.3 Tuneup” plugin and deleting the update services didn’t solve the problem.
I solved the problem: A plugin caused the blank page, because some file permissions on the server changed without my notice and the plugin couldn’t work as expected.
