Scan can’t continue – stored data not found after a fork. Got type: boolean

  • I am running v. 6.1.17 of WordFence on multiple sites. On one site today, I got this error:

    Scan can’t continue – stored data not found after a fork. Got type: boolean

    And the scan tries to finish, and eventually is unable to complete. I researched this forum, have turned off all caching, changed the max execution time, uninstalled and reinstalled the plugin … I have tried to run the scan multiple times today and it never completes.

    All other sites are fine, scans are completing, using the same versions of WordPress and WordFence, on a variety of hosts.

    PHP – 5.4.23
    MySQL – 5.1.73
    cURL – 7.34

    Related or not? I’m getting other errors as the scan tries to complete:
    Warning: gzencode(): stream error in /usr/home/mysitefolder/www/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/lib/wfConfig.php on line 430 Notice: Use of undefined constant CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS – assumed ‘CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS’ in /usr/home/mysitefolder/www/htdocs/wp-includes/Requests/Transport/cURL.php on line 366 Warning: curl_setopt() expects parameter 2 to be long, string given in /usr/home/mysitefolder/www/htdocs/wp-includes/Requests/Transport/cURL.php on line 366

    The site is up and running just fine. The WF Firewall seems to be “Enabled and Protecting”. The scan just won’t complete!

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  • Hi Sue,

    I am not sure this will help in your situation, but we have added a feature in the latest version of Wordfence for low resource scanning. On the Wordfence Options page try enabling “Use low resource scanning. Reduces server load by lengthening the scan duration.”

    Let me know if that seems to help.

    Thread Starter Sue

    (@suelaren)

    That did seem to work, temporarily. I am currently getting this error again:

    [Oct 28 08:47:19] gzencode(): stream error (2) File: /usr/home/sitename/www/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/lib/wfConfig.php Line: 440
    [Oct 28 08:47:20] Scan can’t continue – stored data not found after a fork. Got type: boolean
    [Oct 28 08:47:20] Warning: gzencode(): stream error in /usr/home/sitename/www/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/lib/wfConfig.php on line 440

    This site is also being hammered by hundreds of login attempts from IP addresses in Russia over the past 6-8 hours, all blocked by WF rules, but I got hundreds of emails overnight about IP lockouts due to login attempts with invalid usernames, and I am still receiving emails, though at a slower rate. Connected?

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