delockloire

So I checked the memory_limit settings on my domains, and according to CPanel’s MultiPHP INI Editor, it is set to 1024M on all of my domains.

The failing updates usually don’t state any errors. The update just starts, then it enters into maintenance mode, and after a while it just seems to time out. The outcome can usually be two things:

1. Some or all of the updates are not performed. The automatic update will schedule it to another time (when it usually fails again).
2. Sooner or later one of the updates are screwed up, leaving a non-functional plugin that usually breaks the site until the plugin is either deleted or fixed by a manual FTP update.

If I leave it unattended, 2) will happen in a couple of weeks. What I observed is that small plugins usually update correctly when started alone manually. Larger plugins and/or themes (like Woocommerce or Avada) fail more often than they update correctly even when the update is started manually. However, sometimes on one domain a large plugin/theme will update correctly, while it keeps failing to update on other domains. All domains are hosted on the same server. This behavior feels like a server issue, but I have no idea what. But unless the CPanel memory_limit is bogus, that should not be the issue.

Nice, thanks for the tip. It turns out that one of the plugins (WPML multimedia CMS) was the culprit. I deactivated it and everything went back to normal!

• This reply was modified 2 years ago by delockloire.

Sorry, I found the solution. It seems that my config file had

define('WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE', 'minor');

Removing the line completely (or commenting it) gave back the link. ??

It seems that saving the files in “UTF8 without BOM” format solved the problem. That was quick and simple… how refreshing! ??

Thanks. ??
deL