Title: Can't update core or plugins
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Can't update core or plugins

 *  [qlddrones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/websupportguy/)
 * (@websupportguy)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-update-core-or-plugins/)
 * Got an admin message this morning to say a scheduled update had failed and please
   try again. Since then, I can’t seem to update anything.
 * I tried updating Yoast SEO and it got stuck at the “setting maintenance mode”
   point. Same with another unrelated plugin update. I thought maybe a core update
   failed so I tried re-installing the core and now its stuck on the download.
 * I can get past it by deleting .maintenance (and sometimes also .notmaintenance)
   but I am now unable to update the core or any plugins.
 * Help?

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 *  [Jay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phyrax/)
 * (@phyrax)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-update-core-or-plugins/#post-5532390)
 * Check your error logs for the apache installation, or your debug.log in wp-content/
   if you have that enabled. There could be many different things at play here.
 * If you’re on a Centos install you can check /etc/httpd/logs/error_log, other 
   systems may vary by distributor.
 * The first that comes to mind is maybe the storage is full?
 *  Thread Starter [qlddrones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/websupportguy/)
 * (@websupportguy)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-update-core-or-plugins/#post-5532432)
 * Could this be related to zip.so PHP errors? I can’t find anything else that looks
   relevant.
 *  Thread Starter [qlddrones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/websupportguy/)
 * (@websupportguy)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-update-core-or-plugins/#post-5532433)
 * BTW I have unlimited storage, so it’s not that.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [qlddrones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/websupportguy/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-update-core-or-plugins/#post-5532433)
 * Status: not resolved

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