I'm helping manage a very high-traffic blog with a huge number of entries (102,000+).

Last week we were suddenly unable to edit previously posted entries from the biggest blog. Mt.cgi just returns a blank page (zero bytes) for urls like this: /mt.cgi?__mode=view&_type=entry&id=110005&blog_id=1

This just kind of happened with no real milestones crossed, entry 100k was posted several weeks prior. Editing on other blogs from this installation works normally.

Our workaround was to start a clone of the main blog and just start posting new entries there. Still, I'd like to know what's going on and if it would be possible to fix it.

Steps already taken:

* System Adminstrator enabled by re-running upgrade script.
* All plugins disabled (none were being used)
* MySQL tables rebuilt and optimized.
* mt-check.cgi shows no errors.

We're on a pretty good server (not shared, Apache/1.3.36 with MySQL 4.1.10) and the site is staticly published. MT's error logs are clean, the server's error logs don't show anything and the backend isn't reporting memory overruns. MySQL is peppy when querying from the console.

Curious, thanks for any help,

joe

I'm having a very similar problem. I can edit old entries with an external editor (MarsEdit in my case), but not from the web interface. Using MT 3.31 w/mySQL. All other MT functions are working correctly.

I'm having the exact same problem. It actually started in MT 3.2. So, I thought -- after endless hours on the phone with my webhost's tech support (who've been supremely attentive, but cannot pinpoint the problem) -- that upgrading to 3.31 would fix things. That hasn't been the case.

When using the "Rebuild Site" function by clicking the button in the left-hand menubar, the site rebuilds fine. But when saving a new entry, and often when simply trying to open an old entry, I get the same error described above: a blank page, no code on it. This happens after about 30 seconds of MT going into the rebuild stage. Oddly, posts that I click Save on that end up this way (with a blank page during the rebuild) still usually post to the site and go live.

The URL of the error page looks something like this:

http://www.website.com/mt/mt.cgi?__mode=st...p;entry_id=2628

I'm desperate. I'm at my wit's end. Does anyone have a success story .. or even a suggestion at this point?

Ping.

I've tried a couple new tricks to see if I could get things working but, alas, nothing seems to do the trick. Anyone out there with a trick up a sleeve?