Update to 3.9 won't unpack

Perhaps you’ll have to use a FTP client to upload the latest version of WordPress.

Perhaps I will, but what’s the point of offering an automatic install option if it won’t automatically install?

The point is that it works in most cases. ??

It could be something on your system, a plugin or theme. Try the manual update instructions.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Updating_WordPress#Manual_Update

Just as a safety precaution if you don’t already do so then you may want to back up your whole installation first.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/WordPress_Backups
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Backing_Up_Your_Database
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup

That’s just incase something interferes with the update and is a great safety net. Make sure you store that backup off of your web server.

Yeah, I know… It just seems curious that all previous updates have worked perfectly, and now this one doesn’t.

i was experiencing the same problem! before you try the manual update try deactivating all your plugins and then update to 3.9

worked for me!

Well… yes and no. After deactivating all plugins, I still got failure messages, and had to re-initiate the update 5 times before it finally “took”. Now I have to figure out how to reconfigure all of the plugin and theme settings I lost. I know, I know… I wasn’t supposed to lose them. Tell that to my users as they experience a multitude of problems. Yeah, I know that too… never apply an update directly to the production site. I had had such good success with WordPress in the past, that I ignored the risk this time. Now I’m paying for it. Right this minute, I can’t say I think the upgrade was worth it.

That’s weird. Disabling plugins and themes, unless you used the WP uninstall feature, doesn’t remove a single setting. It quite literally can’t.

Did you make a backup of the DB recently? You may be able to restore just the wp_options table to get things back.

Like a real glutton for punishment, I just tried updating another site. It only took 4 retries on that one — with a different set of plugins and different theme. Plugins had to be reconfigured there too. No, I didn’t uninstall anything, just disabled the plugins.

It may be theoretically true that disabling plugins and themes “can’t” change settings, but it does on all five of the sites I manage, and always has. Virtually every time I disable a major plugin, I have to go through a reconfiguration when I re-enable it.

I guess I should volunteer to test the WP updates, because I sure seem to be able to discover problems with this one now that it’s released.

I don’t know who marked this thread as “resolved”, but it hasn’t been in my opinion. The problem still exists, even though I did manage to work around it on two sites so far. Sure would be nice if the update feature worked as advertised.

it’s resolved since you fixed your upgrade. Which is as far as we can get with this since it’s pretty clearly a one-off issue (that is – the upgrader works, but your setup is weird somehow).

Virtually every time I disable a major plugin, I have to go through a reconfiguration when I re-enable it.

Wow. That’s … wild. That’s just not how WP is supposed to work, or can work. The wp_options table does not delete things without being told…. That you have to try multiple times to upgrade implies something’s wong on your server. Are these all on the same server/host? Using the same plugins?

Have you tried updated a local version of the install just for grins and giggles?

Just tried the update on a third site without disabling any plugins this time. It again took four retries before it completely installed. In all three cases, even when it did finally complete the update, it never showed me any kind of a message saying that it had finished. It just sat there telling me that it was updating the database until I gave up waiting. When I went back to the dashboard I found out that I finally have 3.9 installed. Isn’t it supposed to tell me when it completes the update operation?

To answer your last question, I’m having a pretty hard time grinning and giggling right now.

Same host, yes. Different themes. Different sets of plugins.

I don’t know how to install and run a “local” version. I’ve always installed WP on a remote Linux server — initially by FTP, but then automatic updates until now. My PC doesn’t run Linux, so I’m not sure even how to start setting up a local version.

Might it clean up some of the problems if I re-install WP 3.9?

I have about 30+ standalone sites that are on a number of different servers and i am having similar problems. since there have been 3 or 4 wordpress updates and a jetpack update in the last week alone i am getting sick of backing up and then updating my sites as well. Not to sound ungrateful, bless the wordpress elves, but there is something going on here – i have no doubt wordpress is working to protect us but this has got to be taxing the wordpress servers something fierce – especially with auto updates! So i am going to write my slow updates and strange install behavior off as a consequence of heavy traffic. AND thats ok – just let us know – and when you do – why no word on so many updates in one week?

FYI – since the 3.8.3 i am having consistent problems with updates not happening accross the board. I mean – i have one site that has never been a problem which says its upgrading plugins, but when done – they are still in need of updating. Another site, same server can do plugin updates, but no wordpress updates past its 3.8.3. Another site, same server – earlier this afternoon – no problem with any of it. And another server – other side of the country as the previous – right now – did the update in 10 seconds.

So where is the bottleneck? I mean all my 30 sites did 3 updates this week with no problem, but not now – nothing has changed on my end and I am an experienced and conscientious wordpress user and I am indeed seeing some strange upgrade behavior.

just had this problem, and since it is not mentioned here, this is how I fixed it.

I noticed I was getting

PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /var/www/html/adinfablog/wp-content/plugins/ssh-sftp-updater-support/...

logs.

I updated the max_execution_time line from 30 to 120 in /etc/php.ini:

max_execution_time = 120

Then I restarted apache (on CentOS: apachectl restart) and it fixed it. It took a long time to update (6-7 minutes?) but I had a “top” command open and could see the httpd process was busy and doing things.

YMMV

Craig

I recently installed wordpress 3.9,like other comments it took some time, however eventually all seemed to go well. That was until I attempted to up grade couple of plugins and the Mantra theme, the plugins were Visual Composer, Orbisius Child Theme Creator and maybe Contact 7 Form.

Since updating These I have lost access to my live website and wp-admin,when I try to access either I get the following (my apologies for the amount of text following), my URL is https://www.latrobeacademy.com.au

define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); /** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */ define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); /** The Database Collate type. Don’t change this if in doubt. */ define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”); /**#@+ * Authentication Unique Keys and Salts. * * Change these to different unique phrases! * You can generate these using the {@link https://api.www.ads-software.com/secret-key/1.1/salt/ www.ads-software.com secret-key service} * You can change these at any point in time to invalidate all existing cookies. This will force all users to have to log in again. * * @since 2.6.0 */ define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘|V%=>^|L-p|.gm,(1y@Q{R@JzXbT^l^)=,5%FIik^/RX+CwS_m)K-]g{tO]jR|%'); define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', '|o9RyH&@SD3Q{6O<0Tz|=3H{5|0-F+P*$l{5+V|jUIVi'); define('NONCE_KEY', 'gVuYopYka&h&oM2RmDN)W&jlYYKdc.%}et:|Nll~/w$:+c|_Jj0aQ]2EsF{ij;&n'); define('AUTH_SALT', '7lw2&u,0/W/xVz*-2L 1IIdIvrul3Eu46N[oVg[LOc jrw=6TyG u]dZtha+m]j%'); define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'JALMs~;<,.(g>|- xoBD.Ey>#CyWfhwZ*njyg*1QC RzH>zV27g[y:=Y:?j{y+'); define('LOGGED_IN_SALT', '>@ewCXWes30oFc+{^RaPtZ)9$_336QwRtn%XuG*ikbRaQ5(Dp5v1N/’); define(‘NONCE_SALT’, ‘8j##-9CrX8X{*Q,S[mtlh?|{P4AyZT}[qaPtk;T u*(x54CqMciNi`yzWK.P]|_p’); /**#@-*/ /** * WordPress Database Table prefix. * * You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique * prefix. Only numbers, letters, and underscores please! */ $table_prefix = ‘wp_’; /** * WordPress Localized Language, defaults to English. * * Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the chosen * language must be installed to wp-content/languages. For example, install * de_DE.mo to wp-content/languages and set WPLANG to ‘de_DE’ to enable German * language support. */ define(‘WPLANG’, ‘en_US’); /** * For developers: WordPress debugging mode. * * Change this to true to enable the display of notices during development. * It is strongly recommended that plugin and theme developers use WP_DEBUG * in their development environments. */ define(‘WP_DEBUG’, false); /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */ /** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */ if ( !defined(‘ABSPATH’) ) define(‘ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’); /** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */ require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-settings.php’); if(is_admin()) { add_filter(‘filesystem_method’, create_function(‘$a’, ‘return “direct”;’ )); define( ‘FS_CHMOD_DIR’, 0751 ); }

Any assistance with this issue would e greatly appreciated.

Thanks Wayne.