Title: Fatal Error
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Fatal Error

 *  Resolved [bszen27](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bszen27/)
 * (@bszen27)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-1310/)
 * I woke up this morning to see this wonderful error message that KO’d my site.
   Only disabling Wordfence recovered the site. It looks like this was a result 
   of an update last night. The update worked fine on one website I developed, but
   not another, so I’m not sure how to proceed.
 * Warning: require_once(wordfenceURLHoover.php): failed to open stream: No such
   file or directory in /home/bszen27/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/lib/
   wordfenceScanner.php on line 4
 * Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required ‘wordfenceURLHoover.php’(
   include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/bszen27/public_html/
   wp-content/plugins/wordfence/lib/wordfenceScanner.php on line 4
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 *  [Scott Dayman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdayman/)
 * (@sdayman)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-1310/#post-5199533)
 * Manually download Wordfence and copy it into your Plugins folder, overwriting
   what’s there now.
 *  Plugin Author [Mark Maunder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmaunder/)
 * (@mmaunder)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-1310/#post-5199618)
 * Hi,
 * Is it possible that your web server is out of disk space? This seems to be a 
   partial upgrade that didn’t complete.
 * Regards,
 * Mark.
 *  Thread Starter [bszen27](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bszen27/)
 * (@bszen27)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-1310/#post-5199629)
 * Looks like sdayman’s fix took care of the issue!
 * Note: Apparently this meltdown occurred during a WordPress automatic update. 
   As a result, the automatic update error message at the top of the screen did 
   not disappear after manually downloading Wordfence. All you need to do is delete
   the .maintenance file in the root directory to remove the automatic update error
   message.

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 * Last reply from: [bszen27](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bszen27/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-1310/#post-5199629)
 * Status: resolved