Wordpress 2.9 upgrade Ooooops

By nynke | Published: December 28, 2009

I waited for a while until the dust settled and I could see who was still standing. It seemed like a lot were, and checking the web for possible problems during install, I did not find much. And then got a cheerful message from wordpress on 2.9 being “oh so fine”. Charming. And curious as I am, I wanted to know about “fine”.

Recent versions of WordPress feature an Automatic Upgrade. Wyrdweb does not use this magical back-end button for security reasons. I went for a svn upgrade.

$ svn sw http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/2.9/ .

The result:

U wp-comments-post.php
U wp-login.php
D wp-includes/streams.php
D wp-includes/gettext.php
U wp-includes/feed-rss2.php
U wp-includes/default-filters.php
U wp-includes/post-template.php
U wp-includes/plugin.php
U wp-includes/feed-atom.php
U wp-includes/class-feed.php
svn: File 'wp-includes/taxonomy.php' has inconsistent newlines
svn: Inconsistent line ending style

Okay. I mean, Not Okay. The site is giving two warnings.

Onwards with plan B: a Manual Upgrade: I download the 2.9 files to my local machine, delete the old wp-includes and wp-admin directories, and send up the new directories.

Ach, now the site produces a fatal error. The topic was quickly found in the forum:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function is_admin() in [...]/wp-includes/vars.php on line 16

Increasing memory limit in settings.php to 128 MB did work for me. And now I have 2.9 running here.

And yes, the new features are “fine”. But not worth this manual upgrade foreplay struggle. I’ll be holding off upgrading our other WordPress sites until I get word svn works faultlessly.

Charm me with some safe smooth and enjoyable foreplay!


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