Error during upgrade

Resolved hibbers
(@hibbers)

16 years, 11 months ago

I tried to upgrade to 2.8 automatically – I got a message saying it was successful but now I get the following error when I try to access my control panel:

Fatal error: Call to a member function read() on a non-object in /home/content/h/i/b/hibbers/html/wp-includes/theme.php on line 387

And furthermore my website theme is all messed up (it seems to have partly reverted to the default theme – missing header and the default grey border have appeared)

I did make a backup by ftp-ing everything on my host to a local folder – if I just copy everything back to the server will it go back to 2.7.1 or will that just mess things up even more?

please help!

thanks!

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Thread Starter hibbers
(@hibbers)

16 years, 11 months ago

Well, I’ve managed to get the control panel back by replacing themes.php and my theme folder with the pre-upgrade backup copies. This seems to have solved the problem, but do I need to do anything else, for example do I need to somehow upgrade themes.php again?

anjaleblanc
(@anjaleblanc)

16 years, 11 months ago

I’ve run into the same problem (manual upgrade). The theme looked all right, but the admin interface got the error message (theme.php line 387). I just went back to the previous theme.php and it seems to work.
I wonder whether this has something to do with links since I have the all my themes in a linked directory.
I hope this is something that 2.8.1 will fix.

coolgates
(@coolgates)

16 years, 11 months ago

This solution worked for me.

Thread Starter hibbers
(@hibbers)

16 years, 11 months ago

thanks coolgates that looks like it would have sorted my problem.. Think I’ll stick with my old theme.php for now because I’m paranoid about messing it up!

mstegink
(@mstegink)

16 years, 11 months ago

It is a problems with the access control settings of (one of) the theme’s subfolder. To solve this make sure they are all readable.

See http://www.bos89.nl/1772

brandon_rhodes
(@brandon_rhodes)

16 years, 8 months ago

Good call, @mstegink! I had a hidden “.svn” directory, because I use Subversion version control on my custom theme, that was not set world-readable, so my www-data user couldn’t see it! I’ve changed the directory’s permissions and WordPress is now quite happy. Thanks! 🙂

jeremywpalmer
(@jeremywpalmer)

16 years, 5 months ago

Thanks mstegink – A quick Google search led me to this post before I wasted hours trying to solve the problem. I’m sure I never would have found the answer on my own!