# Blank page on first page load caused by missing locale file

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/blank-page-on-first-page-load-caused-by-missing-locale-file/41905
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [April 1, 2016, 6:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/blank-page-on-first-page-load-caused-by-missing-locale-file/41905 "2016-04-01T18:14:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![gerhard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gerhard/32/119479_2.png) [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2016, 6:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/blank-page-on-first-page-load-caused-by-missing-locale-file/41905/1 "2016-04-01T18:14:33Z")

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About 1 out of 5 times I visit [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org) I’m getting a white screen on first load. Refreshing the page solves the problem. I’m quite sure it’s because of a problem with I18n. I’m seeing the following errors in the console when the page stays blank:

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/optimized/3X/1/0/10d3d9d01e5f14afac4e60802b83263a76f4dd61_2_690x46.png)

I configured the German locale in my preferences in order to notice problems with the translation. I guess that’s causing this.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/blank-page-on-first-page-load-caused-by-missing-locale-file/41905/2 "2016-04-01T20:53:14Z")

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Isn’t the 404 on the CDN resource the real problem there?

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### Author: ![gerhard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gerhard/32/119479_2.png) [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/blank-page-on-first-page-load-caused-by-missing-locale-file/41905/3 "2016-04-01T20:59:55Z")

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Yes, I’m not sure why it’s requesting a non-existing resource on first load. It requests a completely different resource when I reload the page.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2016, 9:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/blank-page-on-first-page-load-caused-by-missing-locale-file/41905/4 "2016-04-01T21:56:58Z")

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Any ideas @simon? We still need to refine our work, now that 1.6 is started we’ll have more time so let me know!

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/blank-page-on-first-page-load-caused-by-missing-locale-file/41905/5 "2016-04-01T22:48:04Z")

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I fixed this, was an internal provisioning issue

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/blank-page-on-first-page-load-caused-by-missing-locale-file/41905/6 "2016-04-01T22:48:07Z")

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