Database Update Required never completes with 4.3.1

What version of WordPress were you upgrading from?

Are you able to see any error logs at all on your BlueHost host that might be able to help with your problem?

If you have root access then it would be under:
/var/log/mysql.log
/var/log/httpd/error_log

I’m guessing that you are still able to log into the admin dashboard?

Are you able to disable any plugins temporarily at all?

I just ran into this and fixed it by doing the following:

Search your wp_options table in your db for db_version. Make note of the number in the option_value. Open your version.php file inside of the /wp-includes folder and find $wp_db_version. Update that number to match the number that you just found in your database.

Not sure if this will work, but make a backup incase it doesn’t. In my case it solved it ??

Good luck!

@trystan: WP was updated automatically so it has updated a few times on its own. I’m not sure what the previous version was.

I don’t see any mysql errors. I checked the BlueHost error logs and there are a lot of recent ones for this:
[client 64.64.19.46] mod_rbl: 64.64.19.46 is listed in RBL

Don’t know what that is. I cannot log into my admin dashboard, anything I try to login to brings me to the:
“Database Update Required

WordPress has been updated! Before we send you on your way, we have to update your database to the newest version.

The update process may take a little while, so please be patient.”

@shaneholden: I don’t see how to search the wp_options table in my database.

@shaneholden: I found the wp_options table and found that the option_value on initial_db_version was different from the $wp_db_version in the version.php file.

I changed the numbers and the Database Update Required still pops up. ??

@trystan: I could disable individual plugins. I disabled all of them by adding -old at the end of the folder name. My blog loads even with all of them disabled except for the commentluv plugin.

The Database Update Required still comes up. I also tried disabling my Theme, Titan, but when I do the blog won’t load. I get a blank screen.

I was wrong, even with the themes disabled I still get the Database Update Required message!!!

You updated the number in the version.php file and not the DB, correct?

Bummer, I thought sure that would fix it for you as it did for me ??

@shaneholden: Yeah, I changed the version number on version.php file.

Does it matter that I couldn’t find a db_version but instead found an initial_db_version? I was hoping those were both the same thing.

I ask my hosting service, BlueHost, to help me with this problem. One of the BlueHost techs found that my .htaccess files needed fixing so he fixed them and got my blog back up and running!

Yay BlueHost!

Same thing just happened to me and editing the db version number totally worked. Great tip.

This just happened to me. Though I don’t know why it happened, changing the version of the db in version.php worked. That was the only thing I did and it worked. Thanks!