error 500 when deauthenticating

all backups across all my (single, not MU) 20+ sites have stopped working, they timeout. I tried the max settings of 25 in both ‘settings’ and php.ini. (per other similar stories). No luck.

when I tried to deauth/reauth (thinkiing: because we got a new IP), the WP admin fails to 500 internal error.

I realize I intertwined two issues, but I believe them to be related. php is 5.6, fastcgi process.

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