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after long hours of searching and attempts, i am still stucked with the new installation of pathauto and drupal 5.1 - i keep getting "White screen of Death" after submitting new contents. Some parts of the installed site will not load after submit, which puzzles me a lot. i hope this is not really gonna happen to my other drupal sites...

it took me at least hours until i realise i should not just beat around the bush. I must start from basics and troubleshoot the possible error. So i've decided to check out the apache log, since i might be able to see what drupal is actually protesting. And exactly after checking out the error.log i regreted not doing it earlier - apparently in the standard installation of apache2 in OpenSuSe php warnings are surpressed. Therefore the error was something to do with ctype_enum() as follows:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: ctype_alnum() in 
/htdocs/www/modules/pathauto.module on line 250 

and with this error, solution is no longer far. Uncle Google brought immediately the solution - php5_ctype should be installed. SO we installed this package and problems went away!

finally. we've got our internal drupal portal serving us now. :)