Truncating a table means removing all content of a table. It's not done in drupal but in mysql. It helps when drupal has issues (the blank page), and to make sure all cache and sessions tables are really empty. <br><br>
At the mysql prompt, type:<br><br>truncate tablename;<br><br>It is essentially the same as:<br><br>delete from tablename;<br>(see <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/truncate-table.html">http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/truncate-table.html</a>)<br>
<br>Drush is an easier option, as you already have discovered. <br>Glad you found your apache config error! <br><br>Ursula<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Roger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arelem@bigpond.com">arelem@bigpond.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 05/02/12 23:00, <a href="mailto:support-request@drupal.org">support-request@drupal.org</a> wrote:<br>
>> > At least that's how it has worked for me previously. However with the<br>
>> > sandpit Fedora 16 site, all I get is a blank browser, ?regardless of<br>
>> > whether both or either drupals ?are set to maintenance mode or not.<br>
>> ><br>
> Try truncating all of the cache tables and the session table.<br>
What is truncating the cache and session tables? I don't know about this!<br>
I ran <Clear Cache> a couple of times but find that it's not a good as<br>
Drush at clearing the Caches.<br>
I'll be happier when they get Drush working on Fedora 16.<br>
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Fixed the Blank Browser issue, I think it was a fault in httpd.conf in<br>
Fedora not recognising php.<br>
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Roger<br>
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