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I have just spent 3 frustrating days trying to install Civicrm on a clients site.  All looked ok except that the admin screen was blank.  I tried all the forums but could never get anything in errors logs or on the screen - just blank.  After countless reinstalls on windows/linux platforms, it came down to disabling every other module/plugin.  Finally it came out to be a plugin Phoca PDF that was the culprit. 
The next issue was that no menu items or styling was showing.  Luckily this was easier to track down using standard debugging.  The variable
userFrameworkResourceURL for some reason had not be set in the database.  UPDATE `civicrm_option_value` SET `value` = 'administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/' WHERE `civicrm_option_value`.`id` = 333; and hey presto it worked.

So in future, I must remember that the white screen of death is normally an incompatible plugin.  Now the customer has to choose what they want!!!