Upgrade to 3.8 resulted in "An automated WordPress update has failed to complete

[stevenmilstein]

I updated all the Evenbrite Tickets, Calendar & Calender Pro from 3.7 to 3.8 & the system responded with something about the site being under maintenance. After a few minutes, I was able to access my Updates dashboard & found the message “An automated WordPress update has failed to complete – please attempt the update again now”. Clicking the update-core.php link has no effect.

The site seems to be working properly. Is there a problem with the core?

Do you have any suggestions on how should I proceed?

Thanks

[Barry]

Hi Steven,

Sorry to hear you’re encountering difficulties.

It rather sounds like a permission-related issue, where WordPress’s own core update failed because it can’t write to the filesystem.

I think this may have coincided with your update of our own plugins – but is actually a quite separate problem. Do you have a CPanel-based hosting account that would let you easily adjust file permissions, or can you seek assistance from your host?

[Barry]

Hi! It’s been a while so I’m going to go ahead and close this thread. If we can help with anything else, though, please don’t hesitate to create new threads as needed. Thanks!

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