I was running into this error.
Update WordPress
Downloading update from https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/release/wordpress-3.9.zip…
Unpacking the update…
The update cannot be installed because we will be unable to copy some files. This is usually due to inconsistent file permissions.: wp-admin/includes/update-core.php
Installation Failed
On my web server, i noticed permissions in my web folder were off (some with owner root, some with wrong access permissions)
Run the following 2 commands in your wordpress directory:
find -type d -print0 |xargs -0 chmod 755
find -type f -print0 |xargs -0 chmod 644
755 and 644 are default permissions for directory and files, change those to what they should be if yours differ.
