Comments on: WordPress 2.9 Auto-Upgrade Problems Fixed by 2.9.1

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:58:46 +0000

Holly, yeah, the maintenance mode detects when the upgrade fails. It’s still quite annoying in the mean time. I’m glad you got it all (or at least most of it) sorted out

By: Holly Jahangiri

Holly Jahangiri — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:36:51 +0000

@wouter – yes, I’ve learned to take backups. Or at least I know I have no one to yell at or whine to but myself when I don’t.

By: Holly Jahangiri

Holly Jahangiri — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:35:51 +0000

Well… I posted an update this morning. It came out of maintenance mode on its own, after about 10 minutes. Nothing was lost or damaged. I threw caution to the wind and tried again. It’s very odd. I still have the error message at the top of my admin panel saying that the update failed to complete, but when I try to do it again, it says I’m already running 2.9.1. Everything seems to be working just fine, so I’m just going to ignore the message that it failed (it’s still there), and go on with life believing that I’m now running 2.9.1. Whatever.

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:24:33 +0000

Holly, that’s quite a lot of problems! I didn’t have any issues with 2.8.6 or 2.9.1 and I manage a LOT of WP installs across 3 different hosts.

Who is your web host and what version of PHP are they running? I’ve read that was a source of problems with 2.9 although 2.9.1 was supposed to have fixed that.

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:22:54 +0000

@wouter most web hosts have regular backups. It’s rarely a daily backup but if you lose everything or really screw something up that’s a lot better than having to start over.

By: wouter

wouter — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:02:46 +0000

And what if you have not made a BACKUP….:-(((

Wouter

By: Holly Jahangiri

Holly Jahangiri — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:18:10 +0000

Oh, great. Now I’m stuck in “Maintenance Mode.” At least 2.8.6 let me get to the Dashboard. Right now, WP and I officially aren’t on speaking terms.

By: Holly Jahangiri

Holly Jahangiri — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:16:49 +0000

2.8.6 hung twice; I decided to skip it.
2.9 upgraded quickly, and without any issues.
2.9.1 hangs. @#$%!

Never had any problems before 2.8.6. I’m liking WP a lot less today… very irritating.

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:25:20 +0000

Gerald, couldn’t agree more.

And, in fairness this is the first problem I’ve had with the Auto-Upgrade since they introduced it as part of the core functionality. That’s deserving of some credit & compliments to the dev team for sure.

By: Gerald Weber

Gerald Weber — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:16:16 +0000

I have four words for you.

Backup, backup backup and backup!

Then once you are done doing that go ahead and make a backup