[support] weird issue with block access

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Allen Stern <allen at centernetworks.com>:

> Hi all,
>
> My site was humming along just great - then friday i decided to take a
> look at my blocks in the admin panel - I went to admin, then clicked
> blocks and it just sat there - never took me to the blocks page. Then
> today, the site stopped responding - just sat there. I use the default
> theme for the admin and was able to get into the admin just fine, it
> showed everything ok (except the blocks page) but clicking on any
> content, went nowhere. When I switched the main theme, back to the
> default, it worked. Again, I made no changes and my theme has worked for
> a year or more.
>
> Now I still can't get into the blocks page and when I tried to turn on
> my theme, it didn't work. I had to copy the default into my theme's
> folder, then overwrite the files with mine and that worked.
>
> I am at a total loss - there's nothing in the log in the admin. I want
> to work on launching a new theme but I can't if something is wrong with
> the site.
>
> Any ideas are very much appreciated.
>

I suggest that you take a look at the mysql processes while this is happening.

mysqladmin -u root -p processlist

Look for locked processes.

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