The user is given permission to handle workspaces.
Logged in the user deleted the tag on all the workspaces shown in his panel "edit workspace permission". As of that moment there was no relation anymore between the user and any workspace.
On the web the user was then directly presented a blank screen --- end of story.
I reconstructed the situation on a local webserver (xampp 1.7.1).
Same story, but here the user was permitted to logoff.
After that, to anyone who's is trying to reach the login page, a blank page is presented.