Would you send me your FTP/Admin details? Our dev team will check it.

The platform version of my site is now 1.2.2. Do I need to update to version 1.2.3 before updating to version 1.2.4, when doing the update manually?

Send me PM with your FTP/Cpanel/Admin details. If you don't receive this auto update requests, then you have some hosting settings which block any updates checks.

I do see the link for auto update, but clicking it does not update the core. I have sent you the details.

I have been using Oxwall since February 2011 and during that time, auto update of core has never worked for me. After clicking the update link in the admin area and entering my ftp-details, I am directed to a page telling me that my site is up to date. However, in the admin area, the platform version number does not change and the update link is still there.

Therefore, I have always updated my site manually. Most of the times, this has worked, eventhough I usually get some warning or error telling me that something is strange with the database. At one occasion I ended up with a slightly broken site, but managed to reinstall the software, using my old user files and database. After that it looked fine again.

I first thought this was a browser issue, hence the title of this thread, but the problem remains no matter what browser I use, so that is not the case.

The Oxwall development team looked at my site and proposed that PHP needed to be recompiled with zlib support. I talked to my web host Arvixe about it, but they insured me that PHP is correctly installed, up to date and include zlib support.

Today I have manually updated my sites core from platform version 1.2.2 to 1.2.4. There was once again an error message, this time telling me that there wasn't enough room in some array in the database. Still, my site seems to be okay.

Updating the core manually is not a problem for me. I doesn't take much time and it is a simple task for me to do. The error messages are worrying though and I fear that I eventually will end up with an irreversibly broken site.

In an attempt to address this problem have tried to export all user data with the data exporter, delete and reinstall the Oxwall software and then import the data using the data importer, but this fails in the last step with some error message that I don't understand.

I am starting to run out of ideas, other than deleting everything and starting over, but that is of course my last resort, especially since I don't know if that will work either.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I should proceed?

A manual install just works it is one of the easiest processes i have come across.

Have you tried a fresh install of 1.2.4 on a subdirectory and still get the same issues? If not then try duplicated the database and add it too the new oxwall site. If all works fine replace your existing.

Auto update doesn't work for me either for plugins or core so i just manually do it and it works nicely.

It's a relief to hear that I am not the only one with an auto update problem!

My site is now updated to version 1.2.4 and it seems to be okay. However, I do get error messages every time I update manually, leaving me with the feeling that my site will eventually break. 

Thanks for the suggestion! Is your idea that I should use my backup to go back to version 1.2.2, do a fresh install of 1.2.4, and then connect the newly installed site to the old 1.2.2-version of the database, hoping that this will fix any problems I might have with the database?

If everything seems to work okay which is should.

Try duplicating your original sites database and add the duplicated database to the new install and see if you still get issues.

This will then determine whether it is your files or database.

I remember your issue. Our dev guy tested and checked auto update on your site during 4 hours. Technically the issue was with unpacking archive with new platform and plugin version. PHP function unpack just doesn't unpacking archive incorrectly with damaged files an folders. The same update script works well on other hosting install without any problems. That's why our dev team decided that the problem is with your zlib extension and it needs to be recompiled. Maybe you should try to change a hosting? It is really confused when every attempt of autoupdate is failed and manually update works with errors. So there must not be. We do our best here in dev camp to make auto update to work smoothly. But we can't do anything when PHP extension works incorrectly :(