[wp-forums] This is a little cheeky but...

[Sergey Biryukov]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:56 PM, esmi at quirm dot net <esmi at quirm.net> wrote:
> has anyone else seen this at a successful login following a (failed) 3.1 to
> 3.2 upgrade?
>
> =======
> Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 262144 bytes exhausted (tried to
> allocate 77824 bytes) in
> /home/stratfor/public_html/wp/wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php on line 88
> =======

One of the ways to get this is to have the old
wp-includes/default-constants.php file, without WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT
constant in it.

wp-admin/admin.php then tries to set memory_limit to an undefined
constant, and it ends up to be 256k.