Automatic Upgrade snafu

  • Resolved chalupa

    (@chalupa)


    18 years, 1 month ago

    I tried to use the automatic upgrader to go from 2.3.2 to 2.5 and was having a lot of problems with file permissions. I was reading some comments on the creator’s site and it said to try a recursive chmod to change permissions on some stuff. So I tried that and it was able to get past setting the blog into maintenance mode and what not. Well right before I got to the point where it would upgrade my database I got several pages of errors all similar to this, for what I’m guessing is every file:

    Warning: copy(/home/chalupa/public_html/movies/wp-admin/upgrade-functions.php) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/chalupa/public_html/movies/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_upgrade.class.php on line 181

    So now if I try to go to my blog or my dashboard I get this error:

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function require_wp_db() in /home/chalupa/public_html/movies/wp-settings.php on line 206

    I’m guessing some of the files were upgraded and some were not? I’m also guessing my database hasn’t been upgraded yet. I did the auto-backup procedure with the plugin and saved those files. I’m not exactly sure what I need to do to replace those. Currently my computer won’t let me even see what’s in them because it has deemed them as “unsafe”. Should I just talk to my webhost and have them roll back to last week’s backup? I would greatly appreciate any help.

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  • Thread Starter chalupa

    (@chalupa)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    I did some poking around and figured out the plugin changed up a bunch of my file permissions and locked me out of wp-content and wp-includes. I fixed that and was able to finish the upgrade.

    However, now I’m having some database problems. It’s looking like it made a new set of tables so it can’t find my username, etc.

    Thread Starter chalupa

    (@chalupa)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    I had my super-hero college buddy take a look. He fixed some more file permissions, and we figured out that a couple files had been truncated. So we re-copied good versions of them and now my blog magically works again. Oh yeah, and it’s not upgraded. I guess I’ve learned my lesson. Only manual upgrades for me.

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