Nag for failed ClassicPress update

[ElisabettaCarrara]

EDIT: As @fwolf suggested deleting nafeza prayer times plugin made the nag disappear.

After launching updates for 4 plugins on my site https://elidabettacarrara.com the site went maintenance mode (both back-end and front-end) for five minutes before coming back online with this “ClassicPress failed update” notice.
Clicking through brings to the update page in an endless loop.
PHP error logs (what I am able to retrieve from hosting panel) seem unrelated. (Nafeza prayer times was not on the update list and the error it shows here has been submitted to dev via WP support forum).

Wed, 15 May 2019 19:24:24 GMT [error] [client 148.251.179.137] - www.elisabettacarrara.com - AH01215: PHP Warning: file_get_contents(http://api.aladhan.com/timings/1557941064?latitude=41.011561&longitude=29.039444&timezonestring=Europe/Istanbul&method=1&school=1): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests\r: /web/htdocs/www.elisabettacarrara.com/home/index.php
Wed, 15 May 2019 19:24:24 GMT [error] [client 148.251.179.137] - www.elisabettacarrara.com - AH01215: in /web/htdocs/www.elisabettacarrara.com/home/wp-content/plugins/nafeza-prayer-time/includes/functions.php on line 27: /web/htdocs/www.elisabettacarrara.com/home/index.php
Wed, 15 May 2019 19:24:24 GMT [error] [client 148.251.179.137] - www.elisabettacarrara.com - AH01215: PHP Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /web/htdocs/www.elisabettacarrara.com/home/wp-content/plugins/nafeza-prayer-time/includes/functions.php on line 30: /web/htdocs/www.elisabettacarrara.com/home/index.php
Wed, 15 May 2019 19:23:16 GMT [error] [client 148.251.179.137] - www.elisabettacarrara.com - AH01215: PHP Warning: file_get_contents(http://api.aladhan.com/timings/1557940995?latitude=41.011561&longitude=29.039444): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests\r: /web/htdocs/www.elisabettacarrara.com/home/index.php
Wed, 15 May 2019 19:23:16 GMT [error] [client 148.251.179.137] - www.elisabettacarrara.com - AH01215: in /web/htdocs/www.elisabettacarrara.com/home/wp-content/plugins/nafeza-prayer-time/includes/functions.php on line 8: /web/htdocs/www.elisabettacarrara.com/home/index.php
Wed, 15 May 2019 19:23:16 GMT [error] [client 148.251.179.137] - www.elisabettacarrara.com - AH01215: PHP Warning: file_get_contents(http://api.aladhan.com/timings/1557940996?latitude=41.011561&longitude=29.039444&timezonestring=Europe/Istanbul&method=1&school=1): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests\r: /web/htdocs/www.elisabettacarrara.com/home/index.php
Wed, 15 May 2019 19:23:16 GMT [error] [client 148.251.179.137] - www.elisabettacarrara.com - AH01215: in /web/htdocs/www.elisabettacarrara.com/home/wp-content/plugins/nafeza-prayer-time/includes/functions.php on line 27: /web/htdocs/www.elisabettacarrara.com/home/index.php
Wed, 15 May 2019 19:23:16 GMT [error] [client 148.251.179.137] - www.elisabettacarrara.com - AH01215: PHP Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /web/htdocs/www.elisabettacarrara.com/home/wp-content/plugins/nafeza-prayer-time/includes/functions.php on line 30: /web/htdocs/www.elisabettacarrara.com/home/index.php
Wed, 15 May 2019 19:22:45 GMT [error] [client 148.251.179.137] - www.elisabettacarrara.com - AH01215: PHP Warning: file_get_contents(http://api.aladhan.com/timings/1557940965?latitude=41.011561&longitude=29.039444): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests\r: /web/htdocs/www.elisabettacarrara.com/home/index.php
Wed, 15 May 2019 19:22:45 GMT [error] [client 148.251.179.137] - www.elisabettacarrara.com - AH01215: in /web/htdocs/www.elisabettacarrara.com/home/wp-content/plugins/nafeza-prayer-time/includes/functions.php on line 8: /web/htdocs/www.elisabettacarrara.com/home/index.php

Expected behavior

Notice should not be there.

Context

Recently I had to check the site to troubleshoot JavaScript issues. I have taken down all affected plugins. The issues were occurring both front-end and back-end. Might that be related with this issue?
Thanks for the help.

[wadestriebel]

Slack convo:

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@elisabetta.marina.cle: Don’t know where to post that. Appeared after updating plugins which resulted in maintenance mode for some minutes. But as you see… I have the latest version according to dashboard. Am I missing something?

@fwolf: strange. just ran a test with my installation (needed massive updates), but nothing like this happened …

@raygulick: @elisabetta.marina.cle Is this a message from the migration plugin rather than from core?

@elisabetta.marina.cle: I do not have migration plugin on, if I recall correctly.
But however… It shouldn’t say that unless there is an update of some kind…
May it be related to javascripts not properly working? (I am in the troubleshooting process)
Even more strange…

This was one of the plugins I updated
What is happening there? How come a file in an update is missing a piece alltogether?
I love working on my site when it decides to go astray… There’s something to learn

@raygulick: When you say “I do not have migration plugin on…“, by ‘on’ do you mean ‘activated’? (still installed but not activated?)
Very strange about deleted plugin file.

@elisabetta.marina.cle: Not installed
Should I install migration plugin in the first place?

@raygulick: OK, so that narrows it down to core file sending the message.

@slack1891: I have seen a similar behavior… I updated a plugin that had changed it’s main PHP file… from old-file.php to new-file.php … I just had to reactivate the “broken” plugin.

@elisabetta.marina.cle: Uhm
Ok. Let’s try

@slack1891: May not be your issue, but, can’t hurt to try.

@elisabetta.marina.cle: Ok. Plugin is ok. But the nag for new CP is still there. These are not related issues. If I click the nag it brings me to updates page, in an endless loop.
Many thanks to @slack1891 for solving plugin issue

@raygulick: I think @jnylen is the best person to look into this.

@wade: @elisabetta.marina.cle who are hosting with?
I just checked all the sites I manage and none have a missed CP update or any update for that matter. It may have been a hosting trying to update WP

@elisabetta.marina.cle: Aruba. Italian company. No automatic updates of WP messing up
(not their default behaviour)
But I will check with them

@wade: Maybe a security patch they tried to install if they don’t typically force-update to the new version of WP
I don’t think it is on our end, but if they say they didn’t do anything let us know and we will look into it more

@elisabetta.marina.cle: I will get this occasion to point out I run on CP not WP. And make them aware of cp
Ok. Thanks @wade
Is there any chance a plugin updating may trigger this notice for core?

@wade: Not unless its a plugin to upgrade/downgrade the core, I don’t think so

@elisabetta.marina.cle: Uhm…
Ok. Tomorrow morning first thing I’ll open a ticket with them.

@wade: Like I have used this plugin in the past: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-downgrade/
and that triggers a “core update”

@elisabetta.marina.cle: Yeah. Because actually it really downgrades.
What makes me think is the sequence of events.
Login, launch updates for 4 plugins. Immediate maintenance mode white screen. Lasts at least 5 minutes (ok. All good. Sometimes it does this) then back online with the notice. Is there a way to know what has the site done while in maintenance mode?

@wade: Do you have access to the php logs?

@elisabetta.marina.cle: I think I do
In Aruba panel
Let me just check
Uhm. There’s a big list of errors related to a plugin that wasn’t on the update lists
Nothing else
But…
The error is in a get_content function used to retrieve data from external source (it gets adhan times for prayers on another server to show them on a widget)
So what has this to do with the nag?

@wade: Could you post the error log on the forums so we can get some more eyes on it?

@elisabetta.marina.cle: Ok

@wade: I can bring the slack convo over after

@elisabetta.marina.cle: But really…
It seems unrelated
Done.

@wade: Great!

[fwolf]

The file_get_contents error might seem unrelated, but: I’d try to get rid of them.
A wild guess is eg. a limiter set by your web host to too many errors occuring when trying to access URLs.

That might get in the way of the WP HTTP API, and hinder or even lead to failed or broken downloads.

Alas, its just a wild guess - but any kind of errors related to remote access would make my spidey senses tingle, so to speak

cu, w0lf.

[ElisabettaCarrara]

That’s what I was thinking.
Aruba told me they did nothing nor pushed updates to core.
I was updating plugins, and both this plugin and core were outsourcing data from outside. So it’s easy this plugin broke the update process. I am going to take it down entirely. Islam related plugins caused too much trouble… I have to rethink how to show that content safely in case I really want to maintain that part of my site.
Thanks for looking into that @fwolf.