Upgrade from WP 3.1.4 to WP 3.2 – Admin error: Cannot redeclare get_temp_dir()

  • Resolved Mark

    (@wpsec)


    12 years, 9 months ago

    I’ve upgraded a couple sites from WP 3.1.4 to 3.2 without problems. However, one site generates this error:

    “Fatal Error: Cannot redeclare get_temp_dir() (previously declared in /home/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php:2160) in /home/public_html/wp-admin/includes/file.php on line 189

    If I comment out the function in functions.php I can then access the admin panel and finish the upgrade. Then when I uncomment the function the site crashes again when accessing the admin panel.

    Anyone have a clue why is this happening?

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  • Thread Starter Mark

    (@wpsec)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    So here’s the solution:

    Reinstall all WP core files.

    So here’s the reason it happens:

    Automatic upgrade automatically fails when it can’t automatically do everything it needs to automatically do. In some cases we wind up with half a copy of WP 3.1.4 files and half a copy of WP 3.2 files. Not good.

    Anyway. Problem discovered and solved 🙂

    junomagic

    (@junomagic)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    How do you reinstall all WP core files? And which are the core files? I’m having the same problem.

    Thread Starter Mark

    (@wpsec)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    The WP core files are all the files that come in the zip download:

    http://wordpress.org/latest.zip

    Unzip that to your local system, then FTP all the files and dirs up to your live site.

    junomagic

    (@junomagic)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Oh, thanks. Worked! Whew.

    drewthebarber

    (@drewthebarber)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    Will this take out all the posts i had previously made, themes, etc?

    sunny41

    (@sunny41)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    I managed to keep the plugins, themes and content. Just deleted WP-Admin and uploaded the fresh version and the same for the functions.php. The rest was left as is.

    For me this happened on BlueHost and I have a feeling it has to do with their auto script even though I manually installed this particular site.

    WideSmiler

    (@widesmiler)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    Thank you! I also swapped out the WP files in the wp-admin and wp-includes folder. That’s all it took!

    egdesign

    (@egdesign)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    thanks for the tip, yes I also did the same as above, but only uploaded the new WP-Admin, which replaced the old works great now.

    thanks again

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