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Auto upgrade 2.8.2 to 2.8.3 "Installation Failed" (43 posts)

  1. sirmix
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    harabanar & jimsky7: I had this problem too. My ftp login was to the root directory for wordpress and the automatic installation did not work. This has happened in all 2.8 releases so far (I've only been able to do manual updates). I fixed it the same way harabanar did, I made a new directory in the root ftp login, put all my wordpress files in it, and then changed the doc root in apache httpd.conf to point to the new subdirectory. Pretty easy fix, but I am surprised how long this bug has existed I guess...

  2. pp19dd
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    All of the previous automatic upgrades worked for me, but this one failed for me as well. This is hosted on a Linux machine and I'm not exactly a dummy. All file permissions checked out. It would help if this thing would say *why* it couldn't copy a file.

    Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8.3.zip.

Unpacking the update.

Could not copy file:
/wp-content/upgrade/wordpress-2.8.3/wordpress/wp-comments-post.php

Installation Failed

    Edit: I spoke too soon. Had to reset permissions manually for the upgrade to work. Security experts, don't cringe, but this worked for me:

    chmod a+rwx -R wp-content

    The error message should've said "I can't copy the preceding ZIP file and unzip it, not the file I was meant to copy first on the list, sorry!"

    Also, oddly enough, the upgrade process froze on its output side - it seems to have upgraded but forgot to tell me it was done. The browser is still churning without displaying anything.

    Edit #2: the above 'frozen' process actually finished. Took an epic 10 minute period, but, it announced that the upgrade worked fine.

  3. SauloB
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    pp19dd, thanks for the tip.

    but that command didn't work for me. same error :(

  4. gallardomark
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Warning: require(/home/markg87n/public_html/wp-includes/compat.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/markg87n/public_html/wp-settings.php on line 246

    please help...

  5. statoy
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Hi
    Newbie, i just starting using wordpress today and as soon as i made changes to my site an update message appeared. I have clicked the automatic update link and got this error message:

    Incompatible archive: PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature

    Installation Failed

    I have deactivated all plugins and thats about as much as i know how to do.

    I installed wordpress with fantastico in my cpanel - if that helps.

    Can anybody point me to a "cat sat on the mat" idiot proof video
    showing me how to fix this.

    Thanks
    Robert

  6. wavded
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Same issue here. Linux box (CentOS), barely any posts, no plugins enabled, permissions wide open. After clicking Upgrade it quickly gives me a Installation Failed message.

  7. jayson_yates
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    i used (FTTPS) ssl and i got:

    Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8.3.zip

    Unpacking the core update

    Verifying the unpacked files

    Installing the latest version

    Upgrading database

    WordPress upgraded successfully

    try that next time

  8. travel-shopping
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    same problem, Maybe manual is better

  9. derbbre
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I also received "Installation Failed" only (no other messges) and no errors in the server log. Moved FTP root up one level from the WP directory and install was successful.

  10. Dion Hulse (@dd32)
    WordPress Dev
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Hi all. Finally got around to hunting the bug down.

    For those of you who the upgrades worked in the past, but not now, Before upgrading again, copy this new file over the old one and see if it has any impact: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/raw-attachment/ticket/10541/class-wp-upgrader.php

    see http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10541 for discussion or comments on the patch please (As i wont likely be back to this thread) - You can login with your forum username/password

  11. studiofairy
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Mine error only shows Installation Failed and nothing else.

  12. pp19dd
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Since this post was on my follow-up list: for the impatient and irritated evil admins out there, check out http://wordpress.org/support/topic/278691?replies=13#post-1339235

  13. mitchellk
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    AWESOME!!! thank you dd32 yours is the ONLY fix to work for the very uninformative message "Installation Failed" .... the new wp-class-upgrader works like a charm and now I can update all my WP sites with ease. Thanks for solving this.

    Hi all. Finally got around to hunting the bug down.

    For those of you who the upgrades worked in the past, but not now, Before upgrading again, copy this new file over the old one and see if it has any impact: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/raw-attachment/ticket/10541/class-wp-upgrader.php

    see http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10541 for discussion or comments on the patch please (As i wont likely be back to this thread) - You can login with your forum username/password

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