i’m getting the same error as well.
still no luck – still having issues – can anyone help?
Good news! The fix here is relatively simple. Go into the admin panel, click on plugins, and disable the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin. It appears to be causing the problem in most, if not all, cases. Afterwards, you should be able to install other plugins as normal.
cheers,
Chase Thompson
Pinson Church Blog
Tech Talk with Chase and Sam
Thanks, Chase. That worked for me.
change file /wp-admin/includes/file.php, line 484 (2.7.1) as follows
from
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/class-pclzip.php');
to
if(! class_exists('PclZip')) { require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/class-pclzip.php');}
Now I’m having trouble upgrading to 2.7.1 with WP automatic upgrade plugin being the ONLY plugin activated. I get this error:
Downloading update from http://ww.wp.xz.cn/wordpress-2.7.1.zip
Unpacking the core update
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class pclzip in /home/…/wp-admin/includes/class-pclzip.php on line 171
Can anyone help?
Hi, delete the Automatic Upgrade plugin.
its not needed with 2.7 and causes conflict with the inbuilt system.
mike.
great! that fixed it. thanks mikey!
I don’t have WPAU plugin installed but I still get the line 171 fatal error when updating plugins.
My WP is up to date but my plugins aren’t. I have already did the line 484 edit. That only helps the automatic WordPress upgrade to 2.7.1 but does not help updating plugins
Is my Built-in WPAU causing conflict is plugin upgrades somehow?
It would be much appreciated if someone at WP would address this problem. The ‘fixes’ offered do NOT address the problem of automated ZIP errors. When the WP is current and there is no WPAU plugin to contend with – there is something else that is wrong.
Please help.
Like net500cg I agree that something else is wrong and I’d be grateful for some assistance with fixing this problem.
The fix about disabling the Auto update plugin can’t work for me as I’ve never installed the Auto Update plugin. The problem occurred from day 1 of the WordPress install. I guess that would have been ver 2.5.
The only workaround I can think of would be to download all the plugins again and manually replace the current ones in my hosting account.
Anyone have a better fix?
Judi
Further, there seems to be a problem on 2.8.3 with WordPress loading a plugin’s main file too many times. I continuously get the “Fatal Error: Cannot redeclare function blahblah…” message, when I am absolutely sure that it has only been declared once. As a plugin developer, this is driving me nuts!
I second that @ ottobohn. Do you know if the servers in question are running PHP as an Apache module or a CGI??
