Title: plugin installation error Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # plugin installation error * [aneuryzma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aneuryzma/) * (@aneuryzma) * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-installation-error/) * Hi, * I get the following error when I try to install a new theme or plugin. I’ve the latest wp 2.8 * Warning: array_keys() [function.array-keys]: The first argument should be an array in /Users/aneuryzma/Sites/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-upgrader. php on line 180 * thanks Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * Thread Starter [aneuryzma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aneuryzma/) * (@aneuryzma) * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-installation-error/#post-1135904) * HI, * I guess the dirlist function is not returning anything.. is maybe because file permissions problem ? I can’t install any theme or plugin… * ``` $source_files = array_keys( $wp_filesystem->dirlist($remote_source) ); ``` * thanks * Thread Starter [aneuryzma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aneuryzma/) * (@aneuryzma) * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-installation-error/#post-1136088) * anybody can give me help ? * I just installed wordpress 2.8.1 and I tried to install the plugins and I got the same error. * thanks * [lee-henderson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lee-henderson/) * (@lee-henderson) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-installation-error/#post-1136212) * I’m also having this problem on 2.8.4. It’s running on a Mac OS X 10.4.11 Server. PHP 4.4.4. Apache/1.3.33 * Perhaps I’m running into a known problem with an older PHP/Apache? * [darkman82](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darkman82/) * (@darkman82) * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-installation-error/#post-1136223) * I lost many hours over this too and, fortunately, I found the problem. There’s a conceptual bug. The engineer who wrote class-ftp-sockets.php pretends to read at most ONE line on the FTP Control Session, after each request (FTP Command), this works in most cases, but not always. In our case, when we do a “LIST -la”( follow dirlist function) the FTP server (Pure-FTP) answers with something like this: * ``` 150 Accepted data connection 226-Options: -a -l 226 3 matches total ``` * Now, take a look in _readmsg function (class-ftp-sockets.php): `$tmp=@socket_read( $this->_ftp_control_sock, 4096, PHP_BINARY_READ);` It tries to read 4K of data, no matter if one or many lines, then it tries to extract the FTP Server Reply Codes through regular expression: `$go = !preg_match("/^([0-9]{3})(-.+\\1)? [ ^".CRLF."]+".CRLF."$/Us", $this->_message, $regs);` * BUT the previous pattern will match if and only if the string is a LINE, if not, thinking that we are in presence of a partial line, it tries to read again appending new incoming data in order to complete the LINE. Unfortunately, there is nothing to read and it fails with “Resource temporarily unavailable” message. _readmsg fails => _exec fails => _list fails => rawlist fails => dirlist fails => array_keys FAILS! * _readmsg is called by _exec every time we do a FTP command: * ``` $status=@socket_write($this->_ftp_control_sock, $cmd.CRLF); if($status===false) { $this->PushError($fnction,'socket write failed', socket_strerror(socket_last_error($this->stream))); return FALSE; } $this->_lastaction=time(); if(!$this->_readmsg($fnction)) return FALSE; ``` * Between socket_write and _readmsg we can’t know how many lines the FTP Server has flushed out on the ftp control stream then, we cannot assume to read at most ONE line or partial line. * At this point, a buffered reader seems to be necessary. * NOTE: I have this problem only in one server, on the others all works fine. * [darkman82](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darkman82/) * (@darkman82) * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-installation-error/#post-1136224) * I solved by changing some lines of code in class-ftp-sockets.php. * Replace original class-ftp-sockets.php with this file [http://darkman.it/x/class-ftp-sockets.php.txt](http://darkman.it/x/class-ftp-sockets.php.txt) or use this patch [http://darkman.it/x/class-ftp-sockets.patch](http://darkman.it/x/class-ftp-sockets.patch) and let me know if it works for you too. * [kirkvan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kirkvan/) * (@kirkvan) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-installation-error/#post-1136236) * darkman82, thanks much for taking the time to post your research. I’ve spent hours trying to hunt down this solution. Instead of changing the code, in cPanel/ WHM I switched from Pure-FTPD to ProFTPD. Problem solved (although I’d prefer to be running Pure-FTPD). I’ve wanted to use WordPress’ built-in updaters for many months, so thanks again. * [ajinkyakulkarni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajinkyakulkarni/) * (@ajinkyakulkarni) * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-installation-error/#post-1136261) * [@darkman82](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darkman82/) * thanks for giving patch and replaced class. It really helped! * [darkman82](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darkman82/) * (@darkman82) * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-installation-error/#post-1136266) * No problem 😉 According to WP Trac, the patch will be applied to the 3.1 realease. [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10831](http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10831) Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘plugin installation error’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [installation error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/installation-error/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 8 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [darkman82](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darkman82/) * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-installation-error/#post-1136266) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics