Movable Type Weirdness

The other day when I tried logging into Movable Type on one of the servers on which I have it installed I got an Error 500. That had happened on a different server with the same web host a few days prior. They were upgrading php and it corrected itself in less than half an hour.

I kept trying to log in but continued to get the error. Finally I noticed that Movable Type was trying to run the upgrade script. Since I’d long since upgraded that I’d removed that script’s permission to execute.

A quick CHMOD and the upgrade script ran yet again. But once it was done all was well.

About as peculiar as it gets.