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davur
davur

Reputation: 1438

Wordpress update operation timed out after 5000 milliseconds

I'm having an issue upgrading Wordpress, and my googling isn't uncovering a solution. Hopefully you lot can lend a hand.

Issue

I'm trying to update a site running Wordpress 3.7 to Wordpress 3.8.1 but it's throwing the below error upon pushing the "Update Now" button.

Downloading update from https://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.8.1-new-bundled.zip…

Download failed.: Operation timed out after 5001 milliseconds with 736947 out of 6333109 bytes received

Installation Failed

Extra info

An unexpected error occurred. Something may be wrong with WordPress.org or this server’s configuration. If you continue to have problems, please try the support forums.

Try again

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6197

Answers (1)

davur
davur

Reputation: 1438

After getting my hands dirty investigating in the Wordpress source, I was able trace the issue to a destructive filter in a plugin called "More Fields". I have disabled and uninstalled the plugin and the upgrades all work again.

Details for those curious

I tracked it down to this line in WP_Http_Curl::request()

curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout );

The function's default timeout is 5, however WP_Upgrader::upgrade() actually calls the function via a download_package function passing in a 300 seconds timeout.

The culprit here was the plugin "More Fields" which included the following filter which broke the arguments array and therefore reset the default timeout:

// Prevent auto update to this custom plugin
add_filter( 'http_request_args', 'prevent_update_check', 10, 2 );

function prevent_update_check( $r, $url ) {
    if ( 0 === strpos( $url, 'http://api.wordpress.org/plugins/update-check/' ) ) {
        $my_plugin = plugin_basename( __FILE__ );
        $plugins = unserialize( $r['body']['plugins'] );
        unset( $plugins->plugins[$my_plugin] );
        unset( $plugins->active[array_search( $my_plugin, $plugins->active )] );
        $r['body']['plugins'] = serialize( $plugins );
    }
    return $r;
}

Not sure if it is intentionally malicious. It looks like a targeted filter, but in the WP_Upgrader all the args are lost.

Upvotes: 5

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