jackinsomniac

oops, dunno if I checked that ‘topic is resolved’ box…

It worked!

Many thanks.

Sorry for the delay, I decided to sync my whole wp-content folder to my local drive before making the change, didn’t realize how big it was.

Much appreciation WPyogi! +1

It was the theme. Needed to be re-installed. Thanks!

@hellogoodbye2124
It looks like you have the same problem OP and I had.

Do what I did, create an FTP account on your server, if one hasn’t already been created automatically, download an FTP client (I heard CuteFTP was pretty good, so I got that), and sync them up so you can play with files on the server through your FTP application.

Then, do what esmi told me, download a fresh version of WordPress v3.0, (Top right, big “DOWNLOAD” button) and use your FTP app to re-upload the wp-admin and wp-includes folders.

You may run into the same problem I did, where your server has permissions set to 411, meaning it won’t allow anyone to overwrite them. In that case, you’ll have to use your server’s file manager to change permissions to something that’s at least 611, of all the files that were not overwritten. Then try to re-upload through FTP. Remember to change each file you modified permissions on back to 411. I’m not completely sure on this, but it’s been my experience that having the wrong permissions set on the wrong files could not only screw up your site again, but allow hackers access to it.

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Holy jebus, that was scary. But I got it working.

First I had to set up a FTP account for my server, download an FTP client, and sync them both up (which is a good thing, I should’ve done that already). Then, when I tried to replace the files, I was only able to successfully replace 67% of them. When I checked it out in the wp-admin folder on the server I realized I had to change the permissions for almost half of the files just to allow my FTP client to overwrite them. So I did, and changed all the permissions back afterwards just to make sure I didn’t screw anything up. When I logged into my WordPress admin account again, the Fatal Error was gone and I just saw a wordpress page asking me to upgrade. Now it works fine.

I don’t know if it was my server or WordPress that set the 411 permissions on those files, but I’m pretty sure that’s what caused the Fatal Error originally (so I’m assuming it the server). Anyway, THANK YOU to all the Mods and Devs that help out here and for everyone’s work launching v3.0
You guys are awesome.

I’m getting a very similar message:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wp_load_image() (previously declared in /home/gdjames/public_html/WESTERNDIGITALEXTERNALHARDDRIVES.NET/wp-includes/media.php:241) in /home/gdjames/public_html/WESTERNDIGITALEXTERNALHARDDRIVES.NET/wp-admin/includes/image.php on line 168

So, if I’m reading this thread correctly, the current solution is to manually re-install wp-admin and wp-includes? I followed a guide (on this forum, I believe) to create a .sql backup with phpMyAdmin before I auto-upgraded. Would it be better to restore my blog with WP v2.9.2 and then disable plug-ins and try to auto-upgrade again? I don’t even know how to restore my site using a .sql file at this point. I’m sorry, I’m still very new at this.