This week WordPress 5.5 "Eckstine" was released. I upgraded my website, and things immediately went sideways. But the problems started earlier, on 6 August, after I upgraded to JetPack version 8.8.1.
I didn't suspect JetPack 8.8.1 as the cause at the time, but my website was slower, and unknown to me, the upgrade broke the connection between VaultPress and my site was broken. JetPack is required to use VaultPress properly. Still in the dark on the issue, on 11 August, I upgraded to WordPress 5.5, and everything broke. My website went offline until 15 August when I recovered manually from a backup I downloaded from VaultPress.
I want to express my gratitude to the web designer and WordPress consultant Daniel Brinneman for his help in brainstorming avenues of troubleshooting.
At some point, after I calm down, I'll write up a longer post on what I think happened, what I did to recover the website, and lessons learned.
I am currently getting no value from my Apple TV+ subscription. I’ve watched all the movies I want to watch: The Banker, Beastie Boys Story, Greyhound and I am waiting for the second seasons of all the TV shows they released in Fall/Winter: For All Mankind, The Morning Show, See, Servant, Truth Be Told, Little America, Mythic Quest, Amazing Stories and Home Before Dark.
I enjoyed The Banker and love the Little America, Mythic Quest, Amazing Stories series.
The content is enjoyable but it seems I may have to wait a long while before new content is available.
I made two mistakes today. The first mistake was relying on VaultPress for WordPress backups. VaultPress is dependent on JetPack. Both were updated in the last two weeks which lay the foundation for my second mistake. I updated to WordPress 5.5. This website went to shit. With the assistance of WordPress consultant, Daniel Brinneman I was able to get the website back to WordPress 5.4. I have re-installed JetPack and VaultPress I still see too many database errors.
From /var/log/apache/error.log
[Thu Aug 13 00:53:07.507989 2020] [php7:error] [pid 6235] [client 69.142.95.100:62715] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 205520896) (tried to allocate 20480 bytes) in /var/www/html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1989, referer: https://islandinthenet.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=71377&action=edit
[Thu Aug 13 00:53:07.568052 2020] [php7:error] [pid 6235] [client 69.142.95.100:62715] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 205520896) (tried to allocate 20480 bytes) in /var/www/html/wp-includes/class-wp-fatal-error-handler.php on line 67, referer: https://islandinthenet.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=71377&action=edit
[Thu Aug 13 00:53:15.479612 2020] [php7:error] [pid 6239] [client 62.112.9.237:3194] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 287309824) (tried to allocate 12288 bytes) in /var/www/html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1989, referer: https://islandinthenet.com/?contact-form-id=63023&contact-form-sent=71379&contact-form-hash=8ae3f1053a1f25b64ddb50aef636572e70864e0b&_wpnonce=72b8e13003
[Thu Aug 13 00:53:40.880041 2020] [php7:error] [pid 6236] [client 114.119.162.218:1612] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 169869312) (tried to allocate 12288 bytes) in /var/www/html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1989
[Thu Aug 13 00:53:43.833804 2020] [php7:error] [pid 6211] [client 173.230.155.197:33552] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 2097152) (tried to allocate 12288 bytes) in /var/www/html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1989
From /var/log/mysql/error.log:
2020-08-13T01:12:11.921976Z 171 [Note] Aborted connection 171 to db: 'wordpress' user: 'wordpress' host: 'localhost' (Got an error writing communication packets)
2020-08-13T01:12:46.564200Z 180 [Note] Aborted connection 180 to db: 'wordpress' user: 'wordpress' host: 'localhost' (Got an error writing communication packets)
2020-08-13T01:12:46.564259Z 181 [Note] Aborted connection 181 to db: 'wordpress' user: 'wordpress' host: 'localhost' (Got an error writing communication packets)
2020-08-13T01:13:12.096827Z 187 [Note] Aborted connection 187 to db: 'wordpress' user: 'wordpress' host: 'localhost' (Got an error writing communication packets)
2020-08-13T01:13:12.111297Z 178 [Note] Aborted connection 178 to db: 'wordpress' user: 'wordpress' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets)
2020-08-13T01:13:12.113981Z 183 [Note] Aborted connection 183 to db: 'wordpress' user: 'wordpress' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets)
I am installing just one plugin at a time starting with the following:
Changing these parameters in wp-config.php did not eliminate these errors.
NOTE: These problems did not occur until after the latest JetPack, VaultPress and WordPress updates.
Randomly I went outside in the dark to "find" today's photograph. I had the camera setup on my tripod pointed at the street. After a few minutes, randomly a man, a dog and a young girl appeared leading the trio in the darkness with a flash. Randomly I pushed the shutter release.
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