Some of the admin pages e.g. /admin/build/themes don't finish loading. The page appears, but the loading indicator keeps turning. As a side effect, this stops the Color Picker and the dynamic admin options from appearing until I manually stop the page loading (at which point the onload function triggers and all the javascript is triggered?)

This occurs in both Firefox 1.5.9, IE5.5 and IE7. It occurs on all three themes I have tested - Garland, Minelli and Marvin.

Has anyone else encountered this?

It seems to be a problem with the page itself rather than one of the links because Firefox returns blank when I try to view the page source.

Kludge:

I can fix the problem by echoing any non-empty string (i.e. echo " " works but echo "" doesn't) after the call to theme(), either before or after drupal_page_footer(). Odd. Erm, could this be a problem with buffers not being flushed or something?

STATUS REPORT
Drupal	5.0
Configuration file	Protected
Cron maintenance tasks	Last run 1 hour 32 min ago
You can run cron manually.
Database schema	Up to date
File system	Writable (public download method)
GD library	2.0 or higher
MySQL database	4.1.15
PHP	4.4.2-1.1
Unicode library	PHP Mbstring Extension
Web server	Apache/2.0.55 (Ubuntu) PHP/4.4.2-1.1

(Aside from this I am very impressed by Drupal 5)

Comments

skstarkiller’s picture

skstarkiller commented

Any update on this? I am having the same issues

drumm’s picture

drumm
he/him
Location NY, US
commented
Version: 5.0 » 6.x-dev
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

There are a few buffers between the PHP script and users' screens, so the problem might be in a few places.

Does replacing the echo hack with flush() still improve things?

chx’s picture

chx commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (won't fix)

No followup in two months, can't fix.