2.8 fatal errors in wp-admin and wp-includes

  • I successfully rolled back to 2.7.1 after experiencing numerous errors upgrading to 2.8. I’m neither a newbie nor super-experienced, but I’d made backups and I had 2.7.1 on my hard drive still from the last upgrade. This experience got me thinking about what I dislike in WordPress.

    I have another blog in Textpattern, so I have some means of comparison–WordPress updates are so frequent (if I include the plugins that need to update periodically, etc) and can be so potentially devastating to a blog that I wonder why there’s an “Automatic Upgrade” button at all–the forum posts are filled with newbies who’ve not backed up, and who expected the button to work right. It has never worked correctly for me and I’ve always had to manually upgrade and if there are going to be problems, it sure would be better to go slower and step-by-step than just to push a button and hope.

    Secondly, there’s no way of knowing when an upgrade has had all the kinks worked out. I assume that when the upgrade is posted, it is out of beta and good to go. Not so, apparently.

    My problems had to do with the wp-admin and wp-includes folders. After upgrading manually, I still had error after error. At one point the blog loaded, but I couldn’t get into the Admin page. I kept getting errors that lines were missing or classes couldn’t be found. Perhaps this is a problem with my theme, but I can’t tell. 2.7.1 works and I’m back to it for now.

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  • hiddenrock –

    Thanks for your response.

    I’ve tried to disable all plugins doing the here’s how to do it without access to the admin page approach, but once I get to log in, it is still giving me the same error.

    Do I give it time to update after this process, or it should be fixed instantly?

    Please help.

    Thanks!

    butterfly1 –

    Did you do the manual upgrade after you disabled all of the plugins? If you did and it didn’t work, my only suggestion would be to roll back to a previous version of WordPress.

    Here’s where you can download 2.7.1.

    Follow the manual upgrade and your site will at least be functional.

    Hopefully they’ll come out with a fix for all of the 2.8 issues soon, or maybe the next release won’t have any problems.

    Let me know how it goes.

    Hi

    After a very frustrating 48 hours as a first time installer, using 2.8, I ended up with a fatal error class translations not found. I just about gave up when I located the file in the subdirectory of pomo under WP-includes. When I finally twigged that the file I had uploaded was showing 0 bytes, I deleted the pomo directory & files, redownloaded WordPress 2.8, uploaded the entire new pomo directory, and hey presto suddenly I could move on to complete installation. Don’t ask me how I found it, I’m no techie and my brain has been hurting after this install.
    Thought others might find it useful.

    I had a similar problem and I thought I’d put my solution here too, when trying to upgrade automatically, either a plug in or a new version (2.8) of Word Press I kept getting this error:

    Class ‘PclZip’ not found in [my website path] /wp-admin/includes/file.php on line 486

    I looked at that file.php and on line 486 it references a file called:
    class-pclzip.php

    So I manually downloaded the new (2.8) version of WordPress, unzipped it, found the file class-pclzip.php
    And uploaded that file only manually to the correct drive/folder (using FTP).

    Then went back to Word Press, and hit the automatic upgrade button and it worked!

    Just thought I’d share since I didn’t see this answer anywhere else, yet I saw the question or ones like it several times. but usually the problem were due to plug ins and that was not my issue. Hope this helps someone else as I was ready to pull my hair out!

    Thread Starter dhurst

    (@dhurst)

    dhurst – what theme are you using? Tried the WordPress Default theme, at least temporarily?

    To be perfectly honest, I have too much else to do in my life than troubleshoot a WordPress upgrade. Reading the posts here and elsewhere, it seems like WP delivered a lemon, regardless of themes. So when you’ve got a better pony to trot out, I’ll take a look. Until then, I’ll go on with life.

    Deactivate the plugin through phpMyAdmin, actually is not going to spend a lot of time.

    I will try to come out with a pictorial tutorial to help u guys later if some of you want to have clearer view.

    thanks,
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    I got the same error and I set the default theme as “default” in MyPHPAdmin, deleted all of the active plugins and ftp’d the main files that were not in the folders.

    Voila!

    User error for me not anything to do with WordPress…

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    Ok, I had Fatal error: Class ‘Translations’ not found in wp-includes/l10n.php on line 408

    after reinstallation and control of files I finally found my error: I kept the previous wp-settings.php thinking it was one of my config file to keep.

    Actually, you only have to keep wp-config.php and replace wp-settings.php with the new one…

    I hope it will help some of you with the same issue !

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    I’ve abandoned trying to upgrade existing WP blogs and am now simply attempting to install a fresh copy of WP 2.8.1. given its own unique database just to see it happen. I can then compare and contrast my fresh install with my upgrade install and hone in on possible errors in ‘upgrading’. My thread provides a lot of detail about how these trials are going. People with similar issues would want to read my thread- UpGr to WP 2.8.1.: PHP is sending my browse loc outside my wordpress folder . It provides detailed language and similarities.

    I carefully follow the Codex – Upgrading WordPress and Installing WordPress.

    -Hans

    I’m also getting the error “Fatal error: Class ‘Translations’ not found in /hsphere/local/home/usdchname/sdhomeless.org/wp-includes/l10n.php on line 407” both after the upgrade and after I tried to rollback. I need to know what my next steps are. Can anyone help?

    hi everyone,

    I had problem with the class translation so I re installed the l10n.php in the wp-includes folder, but then it gave me another error in default-widgets.php. I read some more in this thread and someone re-installed their wp-settings.php which I did but gave me a blank page without errors..

    I didn’t know what else to do, so I deleted everything again like I would install wp manually. I deleted wp-admin and wp-includes and replaced it with the new files from wp version 2.8.4 and IT WORKED!

    I hope this help!

    I too faced same problem when I tried to upgrade from 2.6.1 to 2.8.4.

    Let me tell you in simple words as what to do. First download the WP 2.8.4 or whatever version when trying to upgrade. Open your FTP and rename your existing wp-admin and wp-includes folder and wp-settings.php file to something so that you do have the backups then upload the new wp-admin and wp-includes and wp-settings.php fileversion. Then when you will refresh your browser you will get a message that you database needs to be upgraded. You simply have to continue and its done.

    Hope my above method will work for you and others.

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    haloo…
    i had problem “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 15591 bytes) in /home/yandicsb/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 965”
    I didn’t know what else to do… please help me!
    thanks

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