Wordpress 2.8 Upgrade problems
By Sean ~ June 12th, 2009. Filed under: Blogging, Tip.
Just a quick note. Today I upgraded this site to WordPress 2.8 . As usual I used the WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin, but after the upgrade was finished I started getting weird gzinflate / guncompress errors.
The site worked fine but I would see the errors when I tried to upgrade a plugin. Searching the boards told me a lot of people were doing a manual reinstall and this seemed to help fix the problem. A little more digging turned up this thread on the WordPress Support forums: Error when upgrading to WP2.8
The moderator suggested downloading and replacing the http.php file. Once I did that, the error disappeared and everything ran smoothly. So give that a shot before you do a full manuel reinstall. It might fix your problem.
UPDATE: So it appears that the problems have not totally disipppeared. I am still getting the errors every once and a while. The bigger problem I am seeing is that i am unable to do a XML export of the posts or a database backup. For some reason, the XML file that is exported is 0 bytes in size every time I export and the database backup I export through the dashboard is corrupt.
I’ve tried fixing this through a manual upgrade of 2.8 but that does not seem to be working.
Since the site seems to be up and running correctly, I am not going to panic yet. My next step this week is going to be to dump the SQL tables of the database, backup my themes and plugins and do a full reinstall.
June 13th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Hmmm, It didn’t seem to fix it. I got the errors when I logged into the dashboard again this morning.
June 13th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Maybe that was a cache error. As far as I can tell everything is working smoothly. Let me know if you see any errors on the site
June 25th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
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