Upgrade to 3.2.1 caused crash with fatal error about memory size

  • Hi there,

    We have a site which works fine under WordPress 3.1.3. I tried to update WordPress to 3.2.1 today, using a manual procedure of uploading files to my web host via FTP, which I’ve done successfully before. When I next tried to access wp-admin, the update was detected and I was asked to accept a database update. After I did, instead of being able to access wp-admin, I got the following fatal error:

    Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 262144 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 122880 bytes) in /home/<USERNAME>/public_html/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php on line 710

    Luckily I managed to roll back to 3.1.3 and got our site working again. But I’m now stuck at 3.1.3. Can anyone please explain what might be going on? An allowed memory size of 262144 bytes seems much too small.

    I should mention that I’ve had fatal errors relating to memory size before now, although not ones that wiped out the whole site. Under version 3.1.3, I had needed to modify some files to increase maximum memory, since I had been seeing fatal errors about 32M of memory being exhausted whenever I tried to publish new pages. To get rid of them I had edited .htaccess, wp-config.php, wp-settings.php and default-constants.php in order to change WP_MEMORY_LIMIT to 64M.

    When I upgraded WordPress to 3.2.1, I uploaded those amended files, with the exception of default-constants.php and wp-settings.php, which had been updated in 3.2.1, so I edited the new files to increase WP_MEMORY_LIMIT instead. I can’t see anything obvious that’s caused the problem.

    I’d be really grateful for any suggestions about what the problem might be in version 3.2.1. I’m worried about being stuck at 3.1.3. This site belongs to a non-profit that I’m supporting. It’s very important that it stays operational, and we can’t afford any consultancy.

    Thanks very much for any help.

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  • Hi,

    I installed the new wordpress update in the my wordpress site https://www.thebrandthing.com and after that I am getting this error message “Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp() in /home/t8b2d9g6/public_html/wp-blog-header.php on line 14”, whenever I am trying to launch the site or even when I am trying to signing in to the admin.

    How do I recover my site out of this problem???

    Hi gullimet,

    Could you please tell me how did you roll back to your previous wordpress version. I do not use FTP for my site. I do it through wordpress interface. It will be great if you could please guide me on this. My site is a very important project for me. I hope that you can understand how much jeopardized I am at the moment…

    Thanks…

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