Update to 3.8 and wp-admin page dies

Hi dalincer,

I’m glad you were able to prevent loss of work, for sure! This is a bug we’ve discovered in 3.8 and are working on fixing for a maintenance release of 3.8.1. I’m sorry that you ran into it, and thank you for posting!

Please try putting this snippet into your functions.php file: https://pastebin.com/FAvMaaH6

That should prevent the activation screen from appearing, thus interrupting the redirect loop. Once we release 3.8.1, you can remove the snippet so you see future update pages (but without the Loop of Doom, of course!)

Our apologies again that you ran into this bug. Thanks for your patience and support while we get it corrected.

Best,
Leah

I will just wait for 3.8.1.

I am diligent about updates, AND, this one can wait until you all are ready.

David

Howdy Dalincer,

That is only fair. Just to clarify one thing, so far we have had 6 users with a seemingly related problem, what Leah calls the “loop of doom”. At this point we have been unable to collect information from all but one of them. That one user has been super helpful, but like you did not want to try the snippet.

That’s totally fair. However, without more information like if that snippet even helps we are kind of stuck. I have spent hours trying every single thing I can think of to reproduce the problem using the information we do have. All to no avail.

At any rate, we are rapidly approaching the code freeze for our 3.8.1 release. Due to the lack of info we might not be able to squeeze a fix for this in. I just do not want you to get your hopes up.

Are you running a WordPress multiuser/network site perchance? Could you possible provide a list of the plugins? Thanks for letting us know your hosting info and what theme you are running. That has already helped eliminate one possibility I was worried about. Cheers!

– Brook

Howdy again,

I just wanted to give you an update on this. This thread provides a lot more detail on the current status, including a bit of a fix. Cheers!

– Brook

It’s been a month since we last heard from you, so in accordance with our forum guidelines I’m marking this thread resolved. Thanks for your support!

~Leah

Hello,

I just wanted to update you here and let you know that we have a fix for the issue you reported in our upcoming release. Thank you for bringing it to our attention! Keep an eye out for an update coming soon. If you are still experiencing issues after the update, please start a new thread and we’d be happy to look into it. Thank you for your patience and support while we got this corrected.

Best,
Leah