by todd vainisi.
Well shucks. Adding debugging lines to config.php has not solved the problem. I doubted it would, as the debug messages usually appear after a php error has happened and a page has aborted/quit/finished. But my pages are just running endlessly without ever erring out.
I don't get it. This should be a homerun for the moodle installer. I'm not adding any plugins or irregular setup steps. I did see that my memory_limit was set quite low in php.ini so I bumped that up to 256.
I don't think its db related, since it has no trouble generating all the tables (though it takes a few minutes).