Please Update Now Loop

  • I have a number of sites on two different servers that I was trying to update from 4.5 to 4.5.1 this morning. On server A, when I ran automatic update, the update said it completed successfully but I still had the “Please update now” message at the top of every Admin screen, and the version shown on the Dashboard was still 4.5. I cleared my browser cache and it made no difference.

    I checked /wp-includes/version.php, and the version in it was correctly showing 4.5.1 even while I was getting the message to update. The database version apparently doesn’t change between 4.5 and 4.5.1, and in wp_options the db_version was 36686. I found that if I ran automatic updates two or three times–each reporting a successful update–the “please update now” message would eventually go away and the correct version would show up on the Dashboard.

    I experimented with additional sites on server A, deactivating caching (WP Super Cache) and it made no difference.

    On server B, the updates worked just fine, and I didn’t have the problem at all, so I think it’s something with server A’s configuration. Server A is running PHP 5.6.20 and MariaDB on Litespeed. It had memcached running, and I found a bug report saying memcached could cause update loops, so I removed memcached and restarted Litespeed, but it made no difference.

    Does anyone have any ideas of other things I might check?

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  • Thread Starter linux4me2

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    This is still happening with the 4.5.1 to 4.5.2 upgrade. It looks like it may be something to do with caching at the browser level, but it happens with both Firefox and Chromium. If I flush the browser cache and click the Check Again button on the updates page, it usually fixes the issue; the update prompt goes away and the correct version is shown on the Dashboard.

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