Admin page is almost blank

[Legolas]

Here is what Chrome's console reports that includes/menu.js file has a bug on line 335:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'childNodes' of null

Lines 330-342 read by default as follows:

var menudiv = document.getElementById('menuid');

// ul
var ul = new Array();
for (i = 0; i < menudiv.childNodes.length; i++)
{
node = menudiv.childNodes[i];
if (node.nodeName.toUpperCase() == 'UL')
{
ul[ul.length] = node;
}
}

If I comment out those lines, the page won't load either. Also, I did a search through the files inclusive with admin/index.php and none of them reference a div with the ID "menuid."

Any Ideas?

[brittainmark]

I have the same issue On my live site. I have reverted back to 1.5.1 with a 1.5.3 database. The strange thing is that it runs fine on my test server? I have seen some posts about leaving old file. But If i put the files back on to the test server it all stil runs. I do not get an error file produced. Not sure if the menu.js is a red herring. The function semes to exit correctly.

Any one any other ideas on this?

[frank18]

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<td class="headerBarContent" align="left">
&nbsp; </td>
<td class="headerBarContent" align="center">
Monday 28 Jul 2014 05:59:13 PM&nbsp;-0500 GMT&nbsp;[162.000.000.00]<br />

Look at your file

admin/includes/header.php

At around line 235 you see

echo '<br />'; 

and this is where your script stops.

Upload that file admin/includes/header.php again to eliminate any file corruption issue. If it works now then all is good.

If not, comment out the next line

echo @shell_exec('hostname'); //what server am I working on? 

to read

//echo @shell_exec('hostname'); //what server am I working on? 

[brittainmark]

Thanks for that. That was the issue my if I took the @ off I got a warning "Warning: shell_exec() has been disabled for security reasons..." I have replaced

@shell_exec('hostname')

with

gethostname()

This works for me. Thanks again for the heads up.

[lat9]

Nice diagnosis and solution!

[frank18]

....warning "Warning: shell_exec() has been disabled for security reasons..."......

Thought that was the case. Thanks for the update that this is now working for you.