Blank page after logging

Reproduction steps:

• Login to the system and display dashboard page.
• Login to the database and remove a session from the sessions table
• Refresh the page and you should be taken to the login page
• Login to the system again
• Blank page should be displayed

It appears that the dashboard component displays the contents only when some stats are available. The stats are gathered upon page refresh or when the interval of 30 mins elapses. When we log in to the system there is no page refresh so the stats are not gathered. This seems to cause the page to remain blank.