Fatal error on upgrade to 2.8.2

Try to deactivate your plugins first and see if that gets you in. If not, then upgrade manually by replacing the 2.8.2 codebase on your site with that from the download area here…just don’t overwrite your wp-content directory.

I wish I understood what you just said — but I don’t. In the meantime, I can’t even see a dashboard to deactivate plug-ins nor can I find the upgrade by itself to upgrade manually. Do you know where it is?

First, see if you can deactivate your plugins following this video and see if that gets you back into your blog:

https://educhalk.org/blog/?p=38

it was definitely one of the plug-ins that was causing the automatic update not to work.

Wow — that tutorial was great — thanks for that link! Except now only my blog page is up, I still can’t get to my dashboard. Any thoughts?

I found it happened with the wp-Typography plugin activated on one blog and the Event Calendar activated on another.

I also get the exact same thing. I took away some of my plug ins that i wasn’t using, thinking that would help give me more memory.

Always take the rout in the upgrading guide.

1) Backup your core files and dbase
2) Deactivate all plugins (as they may conflict with the upgrade)
3) Upgrade – all should go smoothly

Back to the nity grity of reactivating the plugins one by one once you have made sure the upgrade went to plan and blog is intact.

It was the “Platinium-SEO” plugin that causing the problem in my case.

It was the ONLY plugin that I have deactivated before doing the successful WP upgrade.

Good Luck.

See, apparently I’m super-lazy because I just did a “select all” of my active plugins and bulk-activated them…hehe.

Still worked great, though!

samboll’s fix worked for me. Thanks much for the suggestion.

I’ve just spent about a week trying to fix memory problems on a site with over 14 plugins running in a VPS Linux host. Finally I resolved it. Tried everything above, php.ini limit at 200M, made WP files set at 64M, etc. nothing worked.

Host made two changes:
1. added a php.ini file in server root (above www):

[PHP]
memory_limit = 200M

This helped in general with plugins that activated ok but too many being used at once caused fatal memory errors, but I was getting closer! Next, trying to active two large plugins like wp e-commerce and simple:press forum would give this error:
Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 20447232) (tried to allocate 1077921 bytes) in /home/whatsyou/public_html/wp-includes/http.php on line 1331
2. Here’s what host support did next to fix everything. They commented out two lines in the httpd config file. Here’e what they sent me:

Please try it again now, I went ahead and commented out a couple lines in httpd that are known to cause problems with wordpress under suPHP.

#RLimitMEM 294876501
#RLimitCPU 240

Hopefully this helps if you’ve tried everything else. Keep in mind, the host said the memory limits on the server (in the php.ini file) showed more than enough memory so they said it’s the core site files – it’s not. Luck for me, I finally got a support person who’d been down this road already with WordPress and knew just what to do.

One more thing… 200M memory setting is WAY TOO HIGH! Don’t use that setting – chances are your hosting won’t let you anyway. I did bring it back to 64M and all is well.