Automatic Upgrade WP 3.0 Not Working

I think you’ll have to do a manual upgrade in this case.

But what would cause the auto update not to work?
does anyone know, is it a plugin..ect/?

Even it’s not cause by plugin, before upgrading it is wise to deactivate all your plugins first.

btw, how long did u wait? 5 minutes?

well, I did not wait a long time, they have always been fairly fast in the past………does it take a while?

No, it really should have happened in about a minute. You could try doing it again with your plugins disabled.

DELETING SOME PLUGINS FIXED MY AUTOMATIC UPGRADE PROBLEM.

Another suggestion Just wanted to throw this idea out there.

I have started upgrading various installations to 3.0, failing often.

One of the tricks I just tried (again) was to JUST DELETE some of the plugins I really don’t need. and, I did this inside of wordpress (as opposed to thru CPanel or FTP).

I then tried the automatic upgrade again, and it worked.

Sometimes this works; sometimes not.

I tried Cruth’s advice, as plugins usually are the culprits in these cases (which is understandable of course).

but if it is any help, I had the wp-spamfree plugin that was causing the trouble. I also run a few blogs and many of them were not upgrading automatically.

Wp-spamfree is a super plugin, I think, as it makes spam fighting very easy. But they have not upgraded their plugin to work with wp 3.0. which is bad. :/

anyways, hope this has helped.

Hello,
My WordPress version is 2.7, so I used the automatic upgrade from my dashboard. I deactivated all my plugins before doing the automatic upgrade login as admin and using my username to do the automatic upgrade.
I have the following error:
Could not copy file: /public_html/wp-content/upgrade/core/wordpress/wp-activate.php

It’s my first upgrade and am not too sure whether I should aim for manual
Any pointers?

Thanks,
Cher

I deactivated the spam free plugin and got this error message I had never gotten before:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2965231 bytes) in /home/ipenwil9/public_html/wp-includes/http.php on line 1358

First, try installing the Memory Bump plugin.

If that doesn’t work, here are four more ways to increase PHP’s memory allocation:

1. If you have access to your PHP.ini file, change the line in PHP.ini
If your line shows 32M try 64M:
memory_limit = 64M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (64MB)

2. If you don't have access to PHP.ini try adding this to an .htaccess file:
php_value memory_limit 64M

3. Try adding this line to your wp-config.php file:
Increasing memory allocated to PHP
define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');

4. Talk to your host.

I had deactivate and delete a plug in
finally a plug in called super slider was the problem!
automatic update worked instantly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks everyone
That almost drove me nuts…come visit us folks wsopne.org

God bless you all…….

You’re welcome!

Hi, I deleted all my plugins. Still no luck automatically upgrading to 3.0. I get this message “Unpacking the update.” and then nothing happens. I don’t really want to re-install everything. Any suggestions?

THXs

websuccessteam, your server is missing the necessary software to unpack the archive. You’ll have to upgrade manually:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended

THX MacManX. Can’t seem to find the .htaccess file could that be the reason I can’t upgrade?