Magento

The last two times I’ve tried to update Magento this has happened. First when updating to 1.3.2.1 and now to 1.3.2.4
It’s also happened with extensions. When I go through Magento connect and update Magento or add extensions, it goes through the process and downloads and installs. Everything says it’s done successfully. It even shows the new extension, or if upgrading Magento it shows the new version numbers of the files like everything worked. BUT nothing actually seemed to have happened! When I look for the files for example of the new extension, there is nothing there. When I am in the admin, the Magento version number is the OLD number, and nothing has actually been upgraded.

The only way I can seem to get things upgraded, or extension installed is to manually add the files in the right places.

This is weird because there are NO errors when upgrading through connect. Everything even says it was downloaded and installed successfully.

If I SSH and try to update, it tells me I have the latest version so I can’t do anything. BUT I know I don’t really have the latest version or changes.

Anyone else have a clue what’s going on?

Exactly the same problem here - surely there must be more than two sites with this problem, anybody else got a solution?

We have had this problem and we eventually solved it by doing a a clean upload of magento. We tried several solutions, if memory serves the primary one that was suggested was to clear the pearlib cache. The only thing that worked was the fresh install.

Of course back everything up first! DB and local files in case you have an issue.

I found a solution that worked for us.

1) Download the Magento cleanup tool: http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/_media/groups/227/magento-cleanup2.zip
2) Unzip it to the root of your Magento installation
3) Browse to it (http://mydomain.com/magento/magento-cleanup.php)

It will reset all of the permissions to the correct ones as well as clearing up various the various caches.
Once I did that I went back into Magento Connect Manager and selected reinstall for all of the core packages, clicked commit changes and then let it run through it and once it was done I came out with an updated Magento!

Seems what was happening was somewhere along the lines some of the permissions must have been changed or set incorrectly. Then when I was updating Magento, it was not telling me anything about bad permissions and in fact was telling me everything updated OK, but in reality NOTHING was really updated! Once the permissions were fixed with the cleanup tool, everything worked like a charm!