Occasionally the admin menu will load as an unformatted list, and the rest of the page content does not load. The page source only includes the code for the admin menu... The html, head, body tags, and all page content does not get loaded. It can happen on any different type of page, from what I've seen.

This happens with or without CSS/JS consolidation on, and regardless of whether you clear the caches.

Refreshing the page will almost always cause the page to re-load properly. But navigating away from and then back to that page may or may not cause the issue again.

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StryKaizer’s picture

I'm experiencing the same issue for some months now. Update to latest RC did not fix the issue.

I never experienced this as admin (user id 1), but users with less rights keep getting occasional admin_menu only html, as shown in attachment from daverston.

I'm experiencing this issue only on live version, server php memory limit is set to 256M

rollingnet’s picture

Same issue, same behavior (refresh solve it)

rollingnet’s picture

Version: 7.x-3.0-rc1 » 7.x-3.x-dev

The issue is yet present even in the current dev version of the module.
It's very annoying to have to refresh the current the current page in order to get it!

Anyone else experiencing it?

Grondhammar’s picture

Same here.

Because it started happening after I had installed half a dozen modules and two themes all at once, I thought I'd start over. I wiped the DB, did a clean install of 7.10 (RH Linux, standard LAMP stack in case that makes a difference). I added a single piece of content (Basic Page with menu link), then clicked on the menu link. Bam, unstyled admin menu and that was the entire page contents.

That is, the source code for the page started with

<div id="admin-menu"...

and ended with that div's closure. No stylesheets, no html.tpl, nothing else.

The fact this has been sitting for 3 months does not fill me with confidence. Will continue to do D6 installs.

Grondhammar’s picture

I'm hitting the point where I really need this solved.

After looking at it more, it doesn't seem to be the Administration Menu. I disabled the module, and saw the same behaviour. I completely removed the module, and still saw the same behaviour. Except now it happens on every single click on a non-admin link.

Will report back as I find things. Apparently this is a pretty rare disease, finding nothing anywhere else on it.

daverston’s picture

Here's an update from me since posting this issue a year ago:

I actually hadn't given this issue any thought for at least a few months now, here's why: The issue seems to have disappeared, in the same mysterious fashion as it appeared, from my Drupal 7 installation (or at least I have not seen it). I have updated the core and modules on a couple different occasions throughout the year, but, unfortunately I cannot pinpoint when I stopped seeing the issue.

It seems like the issue would mainly occur for me while I was building and developing a site. When the site was complete and happily serving out content, I did not notice the issue as much. It could be coincidental, or maybe one of the core or admin menu updates solved it, or maybe even disabling a different module solved it.

If it helps to know, I am currently running Drupal 7.8 with Administration Menu 7.x-3.0-rc1.

Grondhammar’s picture

Just updating to say I'm spending days on this problem with no success. I have at least been able to replicate the behaviour consistently. It seems to "grow".

That is, a click somewhere comes up with the unstyled menu. I reload the page and it looks fine, but a click on some other link (that had been working previously) displays the same unstyled admin-menu dump and that path will not load normally... until it does (which seems to happen after a certain amount of browsing has gone on).

If, instead of reloading the page, I use the back button and just click the other link, that page load completes normally.

I'm currently suspecting core cache, but it's very nebulous so I'd ask that the admin_menu forum admins allow me to keep this here till it's been nailed down somewhere.

sun’s picture

Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Can you test again with the latest code in the repository?

If you don't know how to get that code, then simply wait until tomorrow and so the 7.x-3.x-dev snapshot should contain the latest code then.

Grondhammar’s picture

Tested, with the same results.

However, it's definitely not Admin Menu. While upgrading core from 7.10 to 7.12 I took the opportunity to disable and wipe Administration Menu off my install, and the problem occurred even then. After re-enabling AM it's still happening, but no surprise there.

Admin Menu is made to look like the culprit with the erroring output, but my current best guess is the theme (Adaptive -> Corolla). Nothing reported over there on this though.

Sorry for the bother... if you could leave this here for another week or so, that would be very helpful. I should be able to find a real home for this issue by then.

sun’s picture

Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (cannot reproduce)

Sorry, without further information this issue can only be closed as not reproducible.

Feel free to re-open this issue if you want to provide further information. Thanks.

cappie’s picture

Status: Closed (cannot reproduce) » Needs work

I had the same problem; it was caused by some a content node containing some f'ed up content (probably pasted from Word by a retarded user filling content).. after removing the weird content (running it through notepad and removing unneeded newlines etc.) and emptying all cache tables, the site seems to work again.

I'm disabling HTML/rich text support.. stupid users.

However, a filter to drop this bullshit and/or something that would stop this shait from entering the cache would be very much appreciated.

sun’s picture

Status: Needs work » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

@cappie: Which exact bogus markup caused the admin_menu to appear unstyled?

scottholmes’s picture

I get the same behaviour with rc3 and dev on my development box but rc3 work fine on my production site hosted on hostmonster. It's as if the javascript is not functioning. My content does load but it is obscured by the menu which takes up the entire screen.

truls1502’s picture

Issue summary: View changes
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (won't fix)

I am going to close the issue. Please to use the latest version. However, if you are still facing the issue, please come back, reopen the issue and fill with more information. :)