Auto upgrade 2.8.2 to 2.8.3 “Installation Failed”

All of the previous automatic upgrades worked for me, but this one failed for me as well. This is hosted on a Linux machine and I’m not exactly a dummy. All file permissions checked out. It would help if this thing would say *why* it couldn’t copy a file.

Downloading update from https://www.ads-software.com/wordpress-2.8.3.zip.

Unpacking the update.

Could not copy file:
/wp-content/upgrade/wordpress-2.8.3/wordpress/wp-comments-post.php

Installation Failed

Edit: I spoke too soon. Had to reset permissions manually for the upgrade to work. Security experts, don’t cringe, but this worked for me:

chmod a+rwx -R wp-content

The error message should’ve said “I can’t copy the preceding ZIP file and unzip it, not the file I was meant to copy first on the list, sorry!”

Also, oddly enough, the upgrade process froze on its output side – it seems to have upgraded but forgot to tell me it was done. The browser is still churning without displaying anything.

Edit #2: the above ‘frozen’ process actually finished. Took an epic 10 minute period, but, it announced that the upgrade worked fine.

pp19dd, thanks for the tip.

but that command didn’t work for me. same error ??

Warning: require(/home/markg87n/public_html/wp-includes/compat.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/markg87n/public_html/wp-settings.php on line 246

please help…

Hi
Newbie, i just starting using wordpress today and as soon as i made changes to my site an update message appeared. I have clicked the automatic update link and got this error message:

Incompatible archive: PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature

Installation Failed

I have deactivated all plugins and thats about as much as i know how to do.

I installed wordpress with fantastico in my cpanel – if that helps.

Can anybody point me to a “cat sat on the mat” idiot proof video
showing me how to fix this.

Thanks
Robert

Same issue here. Linux box (CentOS), barely any posts, no plugins enabled, permissions wide open. After clicking Upgrade it quickly gives me a Installation Failed message.

i used (FTTPS) ssl and i got:

Downloading update from https://www.ads-software.com/wordpress-2.8.3.zip

Unpacking the core update

Verifying the unpacked files

Installing the latest version

Upgrading database

WordPress upgraded successfully

try that next time

same problem, Maybe manual is better

I also received “Installation Failed” only (no other messges) and no errors in the server log. Moved FTP root up one level from the WP directory and install was successful.

Hi all. Finally got around to hunting the bug down.

For those of you who the upgrades worked in the past, but not now, Before upgrading again, copy this new file over the old one and see if it has any impact: https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/raw-attachment/ticket/10541/class-wp-upgrader.php

see https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/10541 for discussion or comments on the patch please (As i wont likely be back to this thread) – You can login with your forum username/password

Mine error only shows Installation Failed and nothing else.

Since this post was on my follow-up list: for the impatient and irritated evil admins out there, check out https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/278691?replies=13#post-1339235

AWESOME!!! thank you dd32 yours is the ONLY fix to work for the very uninformative message “Installation Failed” …. the new wp-class-upgrader works like a charm and now I can update all my WP sites with ease. Thanks for solving this.

Hi all. Finally got around to hunting the bug down.

For those of you who the upgrades worked in the past, but not now, Before upgrading again, copy this new file over the old one and see if it has any impact: https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/raw-attachment/ticket/10541/class-wp-upgrader.php

see https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/10541 for discussion or comments on the patch please (As i wont likely be back to this thread) – You can login with your forum username/password