After upgrading (‘successfully’) OJS from 3.1 to 3.3 I am met with a blank white ‘screen of death’ when accessing the website. Originally the upgrade failed because of the known db-engine issue in the submissions_files table entry of the database, but after following the fix of changing the engine …

Many thanks. I fixed the problem by manually installing the default Manuscript plugin (which our journal had been using). It was frustrating that this isn’t caught by an error handler after an upgrade; a handler might have diverted the user at least to the login screen instead (where the issue does …

asmecher February 21, 2025, 10:38pm 3

Hi @thilor,

See: Empty page after updating from ojs-3.3.0-14 to ojs-3.4.0-4 - #5 by asmecher

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

Blank/white screen after upgrade from OJS 3.1.2.4 to 3.3.0.20