Upgraded to 3.0 – Cannot Log In To WP Admin Now.

Ah! But now I’m locked out from both browsers. Is there anyone out there? I’ve cleared cookies and browser cache, history, temp files.

Something is rotten in Denmark.

The problems are definitely plugin related. WordBooker (Facebook blog streamer) does not work any longer. I’ve removed all plugins but one and certainly regret upgrading. I see no benefits from the change, although my blog post editor toolbar returned from whatever void it had been hiding in. My site is less functional but not critically injured. The upgrade apparently only partially completed and I cannot get it to complete. I’ll leave well enough alone, and hope I don’t have something critical missing or corrupted.

mchuston – phpMyAdmin is NOT the same as wp-admin. phpMyAdmin is a totally separate app installed on your server to let you use a GUI with your database. It has nothing to do with WP. If you can’t log into THAT, it’s not WP. ?? It can be confusing.

kizukigroup

OK. I disable my plugin folder by renaming it…and it works. But what do I do now…to update all my plugins?

Make a new plugins folder and copy your plugins back in, one at a time, until you find one that breaks it.

Here’s what I’ve done, running Ubuntu 10.04 with Apache2 PHP5 PHPMyAdmin MySQL Server 5.1

– Moved the plugins folder out of the /var/www folder and created a new folder named plugins, ultimately making no plugins available for the web site.

– Fired up my work laptop, and to my surprise WP Admin was successfully restored, despite the fact I cannot log in from the login page on any other computers. I deactivated the only plugin I had installed.

– Did a manual install, by removing ALL files (after backing them up of course) from the /var/www folder and extracting WordPress 3.0 to that folder. I then went through the configuration process again, to which it errored out saying Error Establishing Database Connection.

– Finally I removed and purged MySQL Server 5.1 and PHPMyAdmin. I reinstalled both. When MySQL got reinstalled it naturally asked me for my password, so I put in the same password I used before. The installation went fine, and yet I still cannot log in to PHPMyAdmin.

Plugin related? No. It’s not. If it were plugin related, my problem would be fixed, but it’s not.

The other thing is, I only set this box up two nights ago. I feel like the only way I can get it running again is to reinstall Ubuntu. That’s not the proper way to do things, but I want this darn site running. What else can I possibly do?

Finally I removed and purged MySQL Server 5.1 and PHPMyAdmin. I reinstalled both. When MySQL got reinstalled it naturally asked me for my password, so I put in the same password I used before. The installation went fine, and yet I still cannot log in to PHPMyAdmin.

This makes me think your box isn’t set up right, frankly. Because this has nothing to do with WordPress. You’re not even AT the point where WP can upgrade your DB. That happens AFTER you upload the files, and it prompts you before doing it.

I completely agree with you, but I was asking other users in the WordPress IRC chat and they were confused over why PHPMyAdmin would not log in. PHPMyAdmin, from what I understand, is basically a GUI frontend to MySQL. So if I cannot log into PHPMyAdmin, it screams an issue with MySQL. But what issue? For who? Why? It was a WordPress update. How could it effect MySQL?

Let me be very clear about something.

I had everything set up. Everything was running fine. I was in the process of adding links and content to my site. I got a popup for WordPress 3.0 update. I accepted it and installed it. It said completed without error. THEN… exactly then… I began having issues. I decided to log out, then back in to see if maybe I needed to do that for the update to work right – and bingo – couldn’t log back in.

It’s definitely something WordPress related that at least caused this issue. I’m sorry, but how can it not be? That’s like taking a perfectly working car engine, pouring sand in the tank and it seizing up and shutting off and the owner saying “Well, clearly the sand had something to do with it” with me, Mr. Mechanic saying, “no actually the sand had nothing to do with it. You might need new rear tires to fix this issue.”

If I can’t get a fix by tonight, I’m redoing the box. I need this set up. I’m kicking myself for ever updating…

Yeah, but sometimes it is the tires ?? I’m not knee-jerking and saying it’s NOT wp, but this is really implausible at this point and frankly, I’d put my time into getting login access back to phpmyadmin FIRST and then see what the hell is up with WordPress.

So if I cannot log into PHPMyAdmin, it screams an issue with MySQL. But what issue? For who? Why? It was a WordPress update. How could it effect MySQL?

Actually no. It screams an issue with your LOGIN ?? Do you have a backup admin ID to log in with? Let’s say your account name is ‘roasted’ and you always use that to SSH/FTP with. That ID should ALSO have access to log in to phpMyAdmin. If that doesn’t work, it means either the combo is wrong (unlikely if you’re able to login to SSH etc) or something’s gacked with phpMyAdmin.

A WP upgrade goes like this:
1) You upload new files
2) Go to your admin side and it says “Hi! You need to upgrade your DB! Click here and I’ll do it!”
3) You click and it edits the tables it has access to (limited by the ID/Password combo in your wp-config.php file)

Did you actually get to step 3? You never mentioned it. And even if you did… WP doesn’t change your phpMyAdmin password. It updates your database via command line.

There’s sand in your engine, and I don’t think it’s WP that poured it in, because … it just doesn’t make any sense for THAT to have happened.

When was the last time you logged into phpMyAdmin?

Honestly, I hate to say it, but if you have no posts, scrub the box and redo it. And start with 3.0 this time, not 2.9.2 and upgrade. Something’s wrong, but you’re the only one with the unholy combo of can’t login to wp-admin + can’t login to phpMyAdmin, and that’s going to be really hard to debug unless we have your box ??

Were you saying that as a metaphor, meaning YOU personally want my box to debug or “we” in general would just need it? Because it’s my server. It’s in my house. Just throwing that out there. ??

Yeah, I have no clue how it happened this way. I was in PHPMyAdmin about an hour before I was adding content when this happened. I had no issues then with it. Throughout the content adding is when I updated when things went south.

I just hate having to redo a box like this because even though right now THIS situation makes sense to redo that, what will happen if I end up working for a large corporation with a wordpress site and we update and I say lol let’s redo it? I can’t do that, so forcing myself to do it the hard way now makes the most sense. However, it sounds like I’m very unlikely to ever run into this issue later down the road, so maybe I’ll take my chances and tank the box later tonight…

I don’t recall what steps I got to. I DID notice that it said successfully done, however if it said something else in terms of completing the upgrade, I don’t know. I saw something about successful, and I thought cool, and went back to editing.

If it was user error, I need to know. I feel I’m pretty good with computers, but I’ve made some EXTREMELY weird errors happen too based on ID-10-T incidents that were entirely to blame on myself. With me being new to WordPress, that could have happened too.

I can’t help but to wonder how other users were having issues though. There were several “Yeah, me too’s” above…

Ipstenu thanks…worked!

I come to you folks this evening with my tail between my legs…

Yesterday around the same time I edited my php.ini file. Why? I found a guide online on how to edit it because I wanted to increase the upload size of files I want to upload. Whatever I did caused it to error out. I changed it back to default and sure enough, phpmyadmin and wp-admin works now.

I completely forgot I had done that. Someone in the httpd IRC chat said check your Apache logs, so I did. I posted the recent log that came up when I tried to connect to phpmyadmin and he said it’s a PHP issue. I said you’d bet your car on it? He said absolutely. Well, he’s keeping his car. ??

Thank you for the help you guys gave me, but my issue in particular is fixed. I think it’d be best to leave the thread open until other users who were having the same issue post back and let us know they’re working again?? Just a thought. Thanks guys.

Hi,

1. I renamed my plugin folder and after that I could login again. After that I changed the name of the plugin folder to the original.

2. I tried reactivating the plugins one by one until I got the problem again. The Problem was the Admin SSL Plugin!

3. I started all over from point 1 and just didn’t activate the Admin SSL Plugin. It seems that this one doesn’t work with wp 3.

Hope they will soon have an update for it.

Everything works fine now and I hope that this helps others…

Thanks!

I’m having a similar issue once I log in but can’t get the dashboard.
I used Filezilla to upgrade.

Here’s the message:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wp_load_image() (previously declared in /homepages/38/d262327624/htdocs/wp-includes/media.php:241) in /homepages/38/d262327624/htdocs/wp-admin/includes/image.php on line 150

I tried renaming plugin folder to plugin.hold as suggested. Nothing.

My website: shivayawellness.com is fine. I just can’t update! Please help, WP whizzes. Thanks.

I have the same problem.
I’ve read the whole topic, and I did not find, what can I do.
So what is the solution?

Roasted – I meant the general ‘we who volunteer here and get our yaya’s helping out without every accessing your server.’ ??

And I’m VERY glad you found the PHP.ini culprit! (There’s a joke about tech support here but don’t worry, I spent a week trying to figure out why my site was only down for me, when I’d blocked my home IP in .htaccess to ‘see what it looked like.’).

csabosz – Why don’t you tell us what you DID do?

I try to enter the admin panel, but I get such an error!

You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.

it is not only admin panel can not log on, even normal use.

I can not edit something help me pls…