So somewhere between 5.6.2 and 5.6.3.1, administrators on our site have been getting stuck with the big gray "checking for updates" overlay, which now never goes away.

There was an old post on this --http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/customizing_c5/after-upgr...

But it talked about a PHP workaround -- basically altering the code to avoid calling the updates check -- so I was wondering if there is anyone out there who has also encountered this recently and found a solution for it (rather than a sidestep around it).

FYI, an easy case-by-case workaround is also simply to add "dashboard" to the end of your URL in the address bar and re-submit the page. That gets you to the dashboard again. But it's rather annoying to have our site managers do this whenever they log in.