[wp-testers] Upgrade Question

Jim Lynch lakelandjim at gmail.com
Wed Dec 10 00:49:48 GMT 2008


FYI In addition to deleting the .maintenance file I also deleted the
upgrade/core directory and things went through just as it should -- To RC2!

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Jim Lynch <lakelandjim at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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