Lost admin after 3.9 update.

  • Bzerka

    (@bzerka)


    12 years, 1 month ago

    Here we go again… Yet another problem after updating. It seems to becoming a regular occurrence:( (for me and my windows server) I feel nervous every with every wp update. Once again my fears are justified. I wish I didn’t like WP so much, or I would have thrown in the towel by now..

    I have just updated to 3.9 and now I can’t access any admin.

    Everything looks normal until I click something, then I get this error message :-

    WordPress database error Duplicate key name ‘slug’ for query ALTER TABLE wp_wppa_index ADD KEY slug (slug(20)) made by require_once(‘H:\hshome\photopostman\historyhunters.co.uk\wp-admin\admin.php’), require_once(‘H:\hshome\photopostman\historyhunters.co.uk\wp-load.php’), require_once(‘H:\hshome\photopostman\historyhunters.co.uk\wp-config.php’), require_once(‘H:\hshome\photopostman\historyhunters.co.uk\wp-settings.php’), do_action(‘init’), call_user_func_array, wppa_setup, dbDelta.

    I noticed that it ‘hung’ while installing and I didn’t get a ‘successfully installed’ message. I did wait a good time but had to eventually close the browser. Maybe I was a bit too hasty, and it was just taking a long time?

    If anyone can translate the above Klingon hieroglyphics for me, I would be eternally grateful.

    Btw.. My site still works fine… Just a prob with admin.

    Cheers..

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  • Thread Starter Bzerka

    (@bzerka)

    12 years, 1 month ago

    I have recovered my site admin by replacing the whole directory with a recent backup. A message came up to say the database had changed. I then just clicked update button.. and all is back . Don’t know where this leaves me though. This could mean I will never be able to update wp again, knowing that if i did it will break my site. Is this the beginning of the end of my wordpress site. I’m worried…

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 1 month ago

    I would try MANUALLY uploading the WP core files for 3.9 again. If the same thing happens, you can manually copy the 3.8.3 ones on top of them to revert.

    TheViv

    (@octotoot)

    12 years, 1 month ago

    how do you manually copy 3.8.3 over a failed 3.9 upgrade?

    Clayton James

    (@claytonjames)

    12 years, 1 month ago

    @gr8fl

    Easily done with your FTP client, or the file manager in your hosts control panel. Reference: https://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Updating_WordPress#Manual_Update

    TheViv

    (@octotoot)

    12 years, 1 month ago

    I cannot get into my WP admin at all.

    The process outlined in the reference pages seems very complicated.

    I cannot deactivate plugins.
    The download link is for 3.9. I did find the page for older versions: http://ww.wp.xz.cn/download/release-archive/

    I have the old stuff backed up.

    This is very upsetting.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 1 month ago

    GR8FL – Please make your own topic, as this is for Bzerka and I suspect you’re not on Windows IIS 🙂

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