Auto update failure

  • Resolved George Notaras

    (@gnotaras)


    9 years ago

    While WP tried to update itself to the latest development release (4.5-beta2-36839) it failed with the following error (as received in my inbox):

    UPDATE LOG
==========

WordPress 4.5-beta2-36839
-------------------------
  Updating to WordPress 4.5-beta2-36839
  Downloading update from https://www.ads-software.com/nightly-builds/wordpress-latest.zip...
  Unpacking the update...
  Verifying the unpacked files...
  Preparing to install the latest version...
  Enabling Maintenance mode...
  Copying the required files...
  Disabling Maintenance mode...
  Installation Failed
  Error: [copy_failed__copy_dir_retry] Could not copy file.
         wp-includes/SimplePie/HTTP/Parser.php

    I tried to resume the update from a link in the warning message in the admin, but it also failed. Then tried to update from the ‘Update’ button, but it failed as well.

    I had to manually *remove* the /wp-includes/SimplePie directory and redo the update, in which case it finished successfully.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Sounds like a filesystem glitch that locked things. Unless this happens again, it’s an ‘acceptable’ error in that WP let you know it failed and why.

    Thread Starter George Notaras

    (@gnotaras)

    Oh, you are probably right. Now I recalled that the other day I had tried uploading a bunch of PHP files while refreshing the page and had noticed that it took some more time than usual before the files were available for reading. Too bad I spent over an hour trying to find the possible bug earlier!

    Update: I’m now quite certain that it’s the underlying virtual disk on a possibly network based block device. Sorry about the invalid bug report!

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