Comments on: Wordpress 2.7.1 update and the old Wordpress Automatic Update plugin

By: Vicente

Vicente — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:49:56 +0000

Deactivating all plugins on my site worked for me. Even I had not the update plugin installed…

By: Mitch

Mitch — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:50:35 +0000

Nope, this didn’t work for me. Why did the WP people have to mess up such a good thing?

By: serantes

serantes — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:01:23 +0000

Thank you. It was OK for me just deactivating the plugin.
Congrats

By: karlkatzke

karlkatzke — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:11:25 +0000

Hmn. It worked for me after I deleted it. Check that either your webserver user is the owner AND group or that you have permissions set to 777 on your entire directory… and that zip utilities are installed on the server. I wish that Wordpress had included more debug functions to tell us what was wrong…

By: Exceptjoe

Exceptjoe — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:04:29 +0000

In fact, I’ve now deleted ALL plugins, and it still won’t update

By: Exceptjoe

Exceptjoe — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:46:05 +0000

Deleting it didn’t work for me, and there’s no .maint file. Still looking for an “automatic” solution. Shame the perfectly good plugin god ruined

By: karlkatzke

karlkatzke — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:55:02 +0000

Agreed with Exceptjoe: I had to not just deactivate, but delete entirely the plugin on all three of my Wordpress installs.

By: Exceptjoe

Exceptjoe — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:46:33 +0000

Even with that (non buggy, perfectly functional) plugin removed, many people are still getting hung at “Unpacking the core update”. Removing the update plugin only got us past the download problem. Even deactivating all plugins doesn’t get past the unpacking.

By: Andy Lau

Andy Lau — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:26:27 +0000

Thanks, this has been discussed in a more detailed manner here:

http://kramfs.com/web-20/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-fatal-error-cannot-redeclare-pclziputilpathreduction/