Matt Townsend's blog

Drupal fans know that their favorite content manager affords a lot of flexibility with information - but I know from my experience in the media that flexibility is only one step toward successfully broadcasting your message. It's important to get the right information to people at the right time.

I recently had this error occur on one of my Drupal multi-site installations. If you're here, you're having this problem, too.

The likely problem

If your site isn't uber-high traffic and you're seeing this message, it's very likely related to the Update Status module.

The solution

Disable the Update Status module, especially if this is a multi-site installation. You may also increase the wait_timeout setting, if you have permission to do this on your host.

Why does this happen?

I've seen several solutions out there for jQuery-based slideshows and carousels, but the most common one (jCarousel) seems a bit buggy, especially with webkit. There is, in fact, a module to integrate jCarousel into Drupal, which is interesting, given that the jQuery plugin hasn't been updated in a year and is only at version 0.2.3. I've seen this plugin on production sites of some significance, and I wouldn't recommend this.