Attempt Of Any Plugin Updates/Hangs

Check the permissions and ownership of the updates folder on the server.

Would that be the wp-content/plugins folder?

Thanks!

No, this would be wp-content/updates/

which is the folder WordPress creates when it does automatic updates & upgrades.

No, it’s wp-content/updates

Now all that said … sometimes these things don’t work because of your server. Have you had any php/OS upgrades on your server?

Gotcha, no php/OS updates that I’m aware of, I’m on a grid on Media Temple.

This is the first time I have had issues with the updating of plugins since I have been with them.

If I find out there has been a PHP upgrade, etc, what should my next course of action be, if there is one?

Thanks!

I am looking at my php.info page,

says that I’m on version PHP Version 5.2.14

Would this page be useful to finding a clue?

Well, here’s something interesting, I DON’T see an updates folder in my wp-content/ folder.

Then make one. ?? Give it permissions so WP can write to it.

So that’s why it hung up, it couldn’t make the folder.

So I put an updates folder in wp-content, so wp-content/updates, cleared all the cache again, set write permissions to the updates folder and still the same issue, unfortunately ??

I’m on a grid on Media Temple

Ask them if there were any OS updates to your server.

On some servers, the way they are set up makes it difficult to use the auto-update feature.

I experienced the same problem. I am also using Media Temple for my hosting. I tracked the problem down to this block of code in the “wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-base.php” file of WordPress version 3.1.3 …

/**
   * Locates a folder on the remote filesystem.
   *
   * Expects Windows sanitized path
   *
   * @since 2.7
   * @access private
   *
   * @param string $folder the folder to locate
   * @param string $base the folder to start searching from
   * @param bool $loop if the function has recursed, Internal use only
   * @return string The location of the remote path.
   */
  function search_for_folder($folder, $base = '.', $loop = false ) {
    if ( empty( $base ) || '.' == $base )
      $base = trailingslashit($this->cwd());

The issue appears to be related to the call the “$this->cwd()” … does not exist or appear to be defined anywhere. After commenting this line, my upgrades worked ok. Let me know if this information is helpful.

Update.
I further investigated the issue identified with the “$this->cwd()”, and determined the method was indeed defined in the “class-wp-filesystem-ssh2.php” …

The problem was finally identified as an SSHd restriction setting on my server that limited my ssh for my secure user to just sftp. ‘ssh’ access was being denied and thus the attempt to execute ‘ssh2_exec” PHP function locked up. Problem was resolved by updating the access restrictions in SSHd