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Getting medieval with /sbin/sysctl and dropping the system cache helped fix the problem. Normally, these things are residual only in APC, and so it should go away with a simple restart of Apache.

Unix users can try this:

sudo /bin/sync
sudo /sbin/sysctl -w vm.drop_caches=3
sudo /bin/sync

then restart apache2.

The only way WP can auto update is by the user giving away its credentials. The user should never store such credentials for others to read (in particular plugins).

Furthermore, FTP should never ever be used as it is a very insecure method of file transfering.

Of course you could always make your entire cataloge writable by the web server. You might as well email your password to the NSA right away.

So fracking stupid.

No, I am talking about the w?rdpress software.

Disable include_once_override in APC.

Is this going to be fixed or not?

What is the thought of having external style sheets anyway? That is so bad for a number of reasons, especially for us that are not USonians.

Is there ANY way of having decent stats without having this humungous piece of bloatware installed?

Further elaborating, for future use and for helping others, it might be related to APC caching PHP constants and thus creating confusion when updating stuff.

Users on their own server using APC should just restart apache2 before cooking the noodle too much.