Since around 2014-07-22 20:00 UTC labs URLS like http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page have been failing for me. Before that I would see Flow pages but get the database locked error trying to add content.
http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/api.php either times out or takes a long time. A basic load.php works fine, but a complex http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/load.php?debug=true&lang=en&modules=ext.flow.new&skin=vector&version=20140524T012822Z&*
bd808 reported some successes on Special:Version, so it's varying.
Version: unspecified
Severity: major
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68413
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68459