Empty screen upon Check

Same for me. I am checking Customizr Theme and just a blank inner screen. Theme Check on Twenty Fourteen and Twenty Thirdteen run successful. Any idea?

Hello Otto,

I have checked the memory limit. There is enough memory this is not the problem? Any more idea?

Thanks

Roman

OK, added fastcgi_read_timeout to /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:

http {
    ...
    fastcgi_read_timeout 600s;
    ...
}

Make sure to sudo service nginx restart if you’re following along.

Now the page loads rather than just returning a blank/empty page, and now I get a bit more in the error log.

vagrant@homestead:/var/log$ sudo tail /var/log/nginx/www.mill.dev-error.log
2014/11/23 13:35:30 [error] 7630#0: *53 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Fatal error:  Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home/vagrant/S3Box/Development/Themes/www.mill.dev/wp-content/plugins/theme-check/checkbase.php on line 158
PHP message: PHP Stack trace:
PHP message: PHP   1. {main}() /home/vagrant/S3Box/Development/Themes/www.mill.dev/wp-admin/themes.php:0
PHP message: PHP   2. require_once() /home/vagrant/S3Box/Development/Themes/www.mill.dev/wp-admin/themes.php:10
PHP message: PHP   3. do_action() /home/vagrant/S3Box/Development/Themes/www.mill.dev/wp-admin/admin.php:212
PHP message: PHP   4. call_user_func_array:{/home/vagrant/S3Box/Development/Themes/www.mill.dev/wp-includes/plugin.php:505}() /home/vagrant/S3Box/Development/Themes/www.mill.dev/wp-includes/plugin.php:505
PHP message: PHP   5. ThemeCheckMain->themecheck_do_page() /home/vagrant/S3Box/Development/Themes/www.mill.dev/wp-includes/plugin.php:505
PHP message: PHP   6. check_main() /home/vagrant/S3Box/Development/Themes/www.mill.dev/wp-content/plugins/theme-check/theme-check.php:57
PHP message: PHP   7. listdir() /home/vagrant/S3Box/Development/Themes/www.mill.dev/wp-content/plugins/theme-check/main.php:17
PHP message: PHP   8. RecursiveDirectoryIterator->hasChildren() /home/vagrant/S3Box/Development/Themes/www.mill.dev/wp-content/plugins/theme-check/main.php:158" while reading upstream, client: 192.168.33.1, server: www.mill.dev, request: "POST /wp-admin/themes.php?page=themecheck HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock:", host: "www.mill.dev", referrer: "http://www.mill.dev/wp-admin/themes.php?page=themecheck"

So I have changed max_execution_time in /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini from 30 to 300. Again, make sure to restart the php service sudo service php5-fpm restart. Now I get the blank/empty page again.

vagrant@homestead:/var/log$ sudo tail /var/log/nginx/www.mill.dev-error.log
PHP message: PHP Stack trace:
PHP message: PHP   1. {main}() /home/vagrant/S3Box/Development/Themes/www.mill.dev/wp-admin/themes.php:0
PHP message: PHP   2. require_once() /home/vagrant/S3Box/Development/Themes/www.mill.dev/wp-admin/themes.php:10
PHP message: PHP   3. do_action() /home/vagrant/S3Box/Development/Themes/www.mill.dev/wp-admin/admin.php:212
PHP message: PHP   4. call_user_func_array:{/home/vagrant/S3Box/Development/Themes/www.mill.dev/wp-includes/plugin.php:505}() /home/vagrant/S3Box/Development/Themes/www.mill.dev/wp-includes/plugin.php:505
PHP message: PHP   5. ThemeCheckMain->themecheck_do_page() /home/vagrant/S3Box/Development/Themes/www.mill.dev/wp-includes/plugin.php:505
PHP message: PHP   6. check_main() /home/vagrant/S3Box/Development/Themes/www.mill.dev/wp-content/plugins/theme-check/theme-check.php:57
PHP message: PHP   7. listdir() /home/vagrant/S3Box/Development/Themes/www.mill.dev/wp-content/plugins/theme-check/main.php:17
PHP message: PHP   8. RecursiveDirectoryIterator->hasChildren() /home/vagrant/S3Box/Development/Themes/www.mill.dev/wp-content/plugins/theme-check/main.php:158" while reading upstream, client: 192.168.33.1, server: www.mill.dev, request: "POST /wp-admin/themes.php?page=themecheck HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock:", host: "www.mill.dev", referrer: "http://www.mill.dev/wp-admin/themes.php?page=themecheck"
2014/11/23 13:52:08 [error] 7634#0: *60 upstream timed out (110: Connection timed out) while reading upstream, client: 192.168.33.1, server: www.mill.dev, request: "POST /wp-admin/themes.php?page=themecheck HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock:", host: "www.mill.dev", referrer: "http://www.mill.dev/wp-admin/themes.php?page=themecheck”

So, now to remove nginx from the mix, I stop nginx using sudo service nginx stop, edit the cli php.ini at /etc/php5/cli/php.ini updating max_execution_time from 30 to 300 again. I then cd to the project root directory (WordPress, not the theme) and run sudo php -S 192.168.33.10:80 to serve it using PHP.

vagrant@homestead:~/S3Box/Development/Themes/www.mill.dev$ sudo php -S 192.168.33.10:80
PHP 5.6.0-1+deb.sury.org~trusty+1 Development Server started at Sun Nov 23 14:02:36 2014
Listening on http://192.168.33.10:80
Document root is /home/vagrant/S3Box/Development/Themes/www.mill.dev
Press Ctrl-C to quit.

Now I reload the theme check page once again in the browser and wait for a result/error to be output in the command line. Now the page loads successfully showing the theme check results, so seems it’s a php/nginx timeout issue, likely because it’s running inside of vagrant with limited resources.

I have the exact same problem.

I am using local XAMPP installation, but when I check my theme, it shows a blank page.

It works well with other themes though.

What should I change or what I am doing wrong?

Might be an idea to allow a config file or add a few options in wp admin to exclude certain files/folders @otto?

I also have git files/folder for example. Not sure if Theme Check ignores hidden folders/files but either way, being able to be explicit about what’s not checked would help prevent these issues.