Admin Page in Text

Upgraded to 3.5.2 – problem was resolved.

Problem back. Very Strange.

Here’s what the admin panel looks like
https://www.olenick.com/admin-panel-garbled.jpg

The menu actions still work, but all responses are text only.

“Visit Site” is now non-responsive.

I tried re-installing 3.5.2 – no change.

php_errorlog has the following errors, which roughly correspond to the garbled admin screen

22-Jun-2013 14:45:13 UTC] WordPress database error MySQL server has gone away for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = ‘_transient_doing_cron’ LIMIT 1 made by _get_cron_lock
[22-Jun-2013 23:11:09 UTC] WordPress database error MySQL server has gone away for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = ‘_transient_doing_cron’ LIMIT 1 made by _get_cron_lock
[23-Jun-2013 00:06:15 UTC] WordPress database error MySQL server has gone away for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = ‘_transient_doing_cron’ LIMIT 1 made by _get_cron_lock
[23-Jun-2013 02:11:38 UTC] WordPress database error MySQL server has gone away for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = ‘_transient_doing_cron’ LIMIT 1 made by _get_cron_lock
[23-Jun-2013 08:32:59 UTC] WordPress database error MySQL server has gone away for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = ‘_transient_doing_cron’ LIMIT 1 made by _get_cron_lock
[24-Jun-2013 12:28:53 UTC] WordPress database error MySQL server has gone away for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = ‘_transient_doing_cron’ LIMIT 1 made by _get_cron_lock

Update – we have determined that the problem is being caused by some setting in our office LAN.

Where do you have WordPress installed? At the root or in a sub-directory?

WP 3.5.2 is in its own dir, under /public_html