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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Problem with plugins/theme updates after upgrading to Ubuntu 26.04](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-plugins-theme-updates-after-upgrading-to-ubuntu-26-04/)
 *  Thread Starter [physicman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/physicman/)
 * (@physicman)
 * [2 days, 5 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-plugins-theme-updates-after-upgrading-to-ubuntu-26-04/#post-19035975)
 * Hello again,
 * Thanks for your answer. I was expecting some kind of PHP problem, but you mentioning
   SELinux made me think the problem could be elsewhere. I fiddled a bit around 
   and found out the the filesystem was seen as read-only by apache.
 * Looking more into it (and searching the web), I found the culprit was systemd
   that was now setting `/usr` as read-only (and therefore `/usr/share/wordpress/
   wp-content` too).
 * Using `systemctl edit apache2.service` I was able to add `/usr/share/wordpress/
   wp-content` to the `ReadWritePaths` , restart apache2 and there, it works again.
   🙂
 * Anyway, thanks again for your help with this!
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Problem with plugins/theme updates after upgrading to Ubuntu 26.04](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-plugins-theme-updates-after-upgrading-to-ubuntu-26-04/)
 *  Thread Starter [physicman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/physicman/)
 * (@physicman)
 * [2 days, 16 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-plugins-theme-updates-after-upgrading-to-ubuntu-26-04/#post-19035687)
 * Hello threadi,
 * Thank you for your kind answer.
 * Like I wrote earlier, I’ve tried setting the permissions to 777 on the wp-content/
   plugins et wp-content/themes folder but to no avail. Are there some other files
   or folders that would require different permissions outside of the ones in wp-
   content/ ?
 * Also, is there a way to check which user is actually running the scripts? Apache
   is running with the www-data user, so I assume that wordpress should be running
   as the same user. All the files under the wordpress directory are owned by www-
   data, so that should be OK, right?
 * Is there something I’m missing?
 * Thanks in advance,
 * Chris

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