Fatal Error after Cornerstone update!

[Deesign]

I tried to update Cornerstone today and first got an error directly on the plugin page:
pdate Failed: Maintenance Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.

Then refreshed the site and it was all done with the standard “Check back in a moment” WP Maintenance message.

But this stayed in place for over half an hour so I disabled the Cornerstone plugin on the server, the site is back but if I Activate it again the same crash happens. So for now the plugin is disabled and a maintenance page is up - the site can be not be displayed without Cornerstone.

Can I download the previous version to install?

[Deesign]

X is updated to the latest version.
When activating CS the below error displays on the plugin page.
The site is broken and has to be disabled until this can be fixed.

[jade]

Hi there,

Please login through FTP then go to wp-content/plugins then delete the current Cornerstone directory that is in there.

Once you’ve done that, Cornerstone should be automatically installed and activated when you log back in to the admin area.

Kindly also make sure that you have X updated to the latest version which is currently 6.3.5.

Hope this helps.

[Deesign]

deleting now - will let you know how it goes

[jade]

Feel free to let us know how it goes.

[Deesign]

Wow - it showed up, a couple refreshes on the plugin page and there it is - automatically! Everything is back to normal. Whew! Big Thanks to @Jade for helping us through that crunchy little situation

[basanta]

Glad to know that!
Thanks

[sully13190]

@Jade I did as you said (above) logged in via FTP and removed cornerstone and then logged into the Admin page of WP. Refreshed the page even, several times and nothing. So i download a copy of Theme X and uploaded Cornerstone into the plugins which caused it to show back up. I activated it, but after doing so activated the Whole theme to the newest version and the whole site now has an internal 500 error.

[ruenel]

Hello @sully13190,

Thanks for updating this thread.

If you want to install Cornerstone automatically, simply go to X > Validation page. Wait for a few seconds while the installation process takes place. You should be able to see a message above once it is installed successfully.

What do the error 500 says? If you are not seeing any error message, please enable the debug mode instead. You can do this by opening wp-config.php and adding

define('WP_DEBUG', true);

/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

When you revisit the page, you should have some error output describing the issue in more detail.

Please let us know how it goes.