[wp-testers] Upgrade Question

[Jim Lynch]

Paul,

Thanks for your thoughts. I'm working through those now.

Let me add one more thing for anyone else who might read this thread. I have
upgraded these sites automatically in the past few days and as far as I know
and control none of the settings on the server side have changed. I'm
rebooting my computer now, just to see if that has any effect.

Jim

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Paul Robinson <pablorobinson at gmail.com>wrote:

> You might be disconnecting from the internet or your wireless signal could
> be getting disrupted & stalling, I doubt it though. You could however try
> hooking up and cable to your router instead of using wireless & try that,
> if
> it's at all possible.
>
> Also if a update fails you can remove the maintainence page by looking for
> a
> file called .maintainence in the root of your WP installation & deleting
> it,
> that's just in case you didn't know. It only tends to be visible when
> connecting through SFTP on my server though.
>
> As for your update failing, if it's not the shaky connection it might be
> that WP needs to use FTP access & you have entered the information
> incorrectly... I dunnot I'm just a tester & not really great at the back
> end
> stuff. Hopefully a dev will beable to extend on what I've said, and
> probably
> correct a few mistakes I've made along the way. :)
>
> Paul.
>
> 2008/12/9 Jim Lynch <lakelandjim at gmail.com>
>
> > How "involved" is my connection in the upgrade process? Here's what's
> > happening - I am attempting to upgrade several sites, but I am doing it
> > over
> > a rather shaky wireless connection. The process goes through part way - I
> > see:
> >
> > Downloading update from
> > http://wordpress.org/nightly-builds/wordpress-latest.zip
> >
> > Unpacking the core update
> >
> > Verifying the unpacked files
> >
> > Installing the latest version
> > , but it never completes.
> >
> > At first, after waiting for the maintenance screen to clear, it would
> still
> > show 10119 as the version, and the "An automated WordPress update has
> > failed
> > to complete" nag. Now it showing 10151 as the version but still shows the
> > nag. Could it be a problem with my internet connection, or is it likely
> to
> > be something else?
> >
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