triballus

A big thanks for all the comments and help. As part of upgrading my server to wheezy, I did an apt-get upgrade which pushed WordPress to 3.5.2 (i.e. outside of WP’s normal update mechanisms). All appears to be working fine. A follow-up update on BackUpWordpress failed due to incorrect php headers which I am assuming is unrelated – the plugin is disabled and I use WP-DBManager instead.

Still no clue as to what caused the original hitch to auto-updates but will watch the site to ensure normal operation over the next few weeks.

Thanks to JK and Mika for your help – much appreciated.

T

Thanks. I downloaded 3.3.2 again to a separate directory. DIFF shows no differences between the downloaded and live version.php files. I also checked the permissions – they are the same.

I looked over a few other files – I found a difference in upgrade.php :
19,20d18
< if(!current_user_can(‘level_10’))
< wp_safe_redirect(‘../wp-login.php?upgrade’);

but when I overwrite the original with the downloaded version, it makes no difference to the update issue. No version update is performed.

One other thing I noted: on the Network Updates page within Network Admin, some text is not showing the version number, replacing it with a dash. For example, the following text appears under “You have the latest version of WordPress”:

You have the latest version of WordPress. You do not need to update. However, if you want to re-install version –, you can do so automatically or download the package and re-install manually:

Note how it says “re-install version -” showing a dash instead of the version number. It certainly looks like a missing variable or permissions issue but I am struggling to pin it down. Any inspiration from the above clues welcome :-).

Quick update: I got prompted to update 2 plugins today (ShareThis and Header & Footer) so that side of the system is working as expected. They updated fine.

I clicked on the button to ‘ReCheck’ if WordPress was up to date and it responded with no errors – still saying that v 3.3.2 is the latest version. Problem remains 🙁

Will do.

I was receiving alerts after the multisite installation – I seem to remember upgrading SEO Pack a month or two ago – but not received any for a while. (I tried de-activating SEO Pack and checking for updates but no change – WP stating that all are up to date).