Plugin Update: Download failed. Previous alarm fired off!

  • Resolved Tony Payne

    (@poddys)


    9 years, 4 months ago

    The update of the backupwordpress plugin failed with an error because the server timed out. I deleted the plugin folder, manually downloaded and unzipped, and activation failed. Tried this several times and it keeps failing.

    When I tried to download the plugin normally I got the following error:

    Download failed. Previous alarm fired off!

    So, I tried updating the Akismet plugin to the new version, assuming that the error was related to backupwordpress, but I still get this error:

    Downloading update from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/akismet.3.0.4.zip…
    Download failed. Previous alarm fired off!

    It doesn’t seem to be specific to any particular plugin as far as I can see, but I also can’t see this error listed on WordPress or anywhere in Google, which is puzzling.

    Any thoughts on how I can fix this or on what to check for?

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  • Thread Starter Tony Payne

    (@poddys)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    While I have been waiting (and hoping) for a response I thought I would search both the WordPress files and the database to see if I could identify where this error was being generated.

    I can’t find the words “alarm” or “fired” anywhere, which is puzzling.

    Thread Starter Tony Payne

    (@poddys)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    Very Weird Indeed!

    I have eliminated the problem, but still have no idea where this error message was being generated.

    I spotted on the failed activation of the Backupwordpress plugin that the latest version requires WordPress 3.9.3 and we are on 3.9.2.

    I removed the plugin folder and replaced it by the previous version. The plugin then activated ok, and I was also able to update Akismet to the latest version.

    So I guess this is fixed, but it would be interesting to see if anyone else gets this error.

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