Fatal error on upgrade to 2.8.2

I got exactly the same thing. At least we know then that we’re not alone! Any ideas anyone?

Amit

add this line to your wp-config.php right after opening php statement

define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');

Hey Samboll, Thanks for that…sorry I’m a tiny bit of a noob… where exactly shall i put it?

For example….my opening statement is:

<?php
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘****************’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘***********’);

So shall i put it here?

define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’);<?php
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘*************’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘******’);

will that work?

If i’m wrong can give you show me a sample of where to put it? Thanks so much for your help!

Ignore the question, i just read your response again and it seems to have worked perfectly. Thank you Samboll!

I can’t even get wordpress to automatically upgrade. It keeps on saying Downloading update from https://www.ads-software.com/wordpress-2.8.2.zip. And, that’s as far as it gets and goes no further.

@samboll

Thanks for the code. Managed to update to 2.8.2 successfully.

Sam’s method will work, but there’s another possible solution for this as well.

Try deactivating all of your plugins before you auto-upgrade. It could be a plugin that is triggering that fatal error (I’ve had this happen). If the auto-upgrade is then successful, you know what caused it and can re-activate your plugins pretty quickly.

Just a thought…

Fatal error: Allowed memory size

pretty much shows this is a php out of memory error
deactivating plugins will work as that will free memory – until you reactivate them

I’ve only run into this error since 2.8 was released – never got it with 2.7.

Deactivating the plugins worked in the few cases where I got the out of memory error when doing the auto-upgrade.

Adding “define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’);” to wp-config.php didn’t solve the problem for me.

I asked my host provider, 1&1, about the error message when I tried an auto-upgrade to 2.8.2 [Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 32243712) (tried to allocate 2355395 bytes) in …/wp-includes/http.php on line
1331].

Here’s what they said:

We have checked your package and there is a need for you to upgrade your
package from Home to business because your CGI limit exceeded that is
why it keeps on displaying fatal error.

So, my family blog running WordPress needs to be hosted on a business account (at extra cost)!

~Andrew~

…but disabling all plug-ins then doing the upgrade did work! whew, back to being a person not a business (no matter what 1&1 say!)

~Andrew~

Could the plug-ins be the issue with the fact I can’t get WordPress to automatically upgrade? I have noticed since 2.8 has come out that in order to upgrade some of the plug-ins you have to deactivate them to get them to upgrade.

Thank you all SO much for the responses!

I deactivated all of my plugins, attempted the upgrade, and voila! Superb advice, and something I would have never considered on my own.

Thanks again, everyone!

P.S. I’ll leave this open for a bit, since other folks seem to have questions about it… ??

I upgraded automatically last night and got the white screen of death. The advice I’ve been given is to do it over manually, but I can’t find the download of just the upgrade. Is that somewhere on site I just can’t see? Can someone pass along that link? Thanks!