Thread:Project:Support desk/Upgrade to 1.22.0 from 1.21.2 causes indefinite loading of pages. Possible problem with runJobs.php script and/or cookies?

Wiki: SystemLinks Wiki

I updated my Wiki from 1.21.2 to 1.22.0. Everything seemed to go fine during the installation: the server environment was found to be suitable, the database was updated successfully, and everything seemed to transfer over fine. However, from the very first time I tried to load the Wiki after updating, it would never load. Firefox would never pop up the message that the server timed out or the page couldn't load like it normally does when a website can't be loaded, it would just continually try to load for as long as I left the window up, but never would. When I checked the active processes on the server, it would show the page trying to be loaded along with the "w/maintenance/runJobs.php --maxjobs 1" script (one for each instance of a page trying to be loaded) and all of these processes would remain indefinitely (or until I manually killed them). I haven't made any changes to this script in the past or since the update, but when looking on the article for that script on this site, it sounded like this may not be normal behavior. Is it supposed to run with every page load?

I disabled all the extensions but it still continued to act the same (they are all still currently disabled). From getting a few friends to help test, I found that it seemed to be a problem with anyone who had already been logged in. I should note that I was able to get the main page to load after about 15 seconds or so while I was logged in once or twice, but 9 times out of 10 nothing would ever load. When I cleared my cookies, it seemed to start to load pages normally (perhaps a little slower than before I updated). However, if I went to the "Log In" page, and DIDN'T log in, a cookie would be installed, database_name_mwiki__session, (where database_name is the name of my MW database) and with just that cookie on my computer, the Wiki acted as before and no pages would load. If I deleted that cookie, pages would load again.

I did not make any changes to the 1.22.0 version files I downloaded except for moving over the Images and Extensions folders, the LocalSettings.php file, and the Vector folder.