It is only the welcome application that stalls loading the default index page, opening a different application works fine.
applications/welcome/controller/default function index() has this new debug code between def and return m = 'You are successfully running web2py.' import gluon.debug; gluon.debug.set_trace() response.flash = T(m) gluon.debug.stop_trace() comment out the debug code and the welcome initial page loads m = 'You are successfully running web2py.' #import gluon.debug; #gluon.debug.set_trace() response.flash = T(m) #gluon.debug.stop_trace() Ron