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Opened 11 months ago
Last modified 5 weeks ago
#64236 reopened defect (bug)
Warning messages when deleting any plugin in WP 6.9 RC1
| Reported by: | leemon | Owned by: | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Plugins | Version: | 6.9 |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Focuses: |
Description
When deleting any plugin from the admin interface in WP 6.9 RC1, a "Deletion failed" message is displayed alongside several PHP Warning notices related to missing language files (.l10n.php) for the deleted plugin. Despite the error messages, the plugin is successfully removed from the file system and the database. I've tried in two different hosting services, and this issue only happens in one of them.
Deletion failed:
Warning: include(/srv/vhost/example.com/home/html/wp-content/languages/plugins/better-search-replace-ca.l10n.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /srv/vhost/example.com/home/html/wp-includes/l10n.php on line 1618
Warning: include(): Failed opening '/srv/vhost/example.com/home/html/wp-content/languages/plugins/better-search-replace-ca.l10n.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/opt/remi/php83/root/usr/share/pear:/opt/remi/php83/root/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /srv/vhost/example.com/home/html/wp-includes/l10n.php on line 1618
Warning: include(/srv/vhost/example.com/home/html/wp-content/languages/plugins/better-search-replace-es_ES.l10n.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /srv/vhost/example.com/home/html/wp-includes/l10n.php on line 1618
Warning: include(): Failed opening '/srv/vhost/example.com/home/html/wp-content/languages/plugins/better-search-replace-es_ES.l10n.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/opt/remi/php83/root/usr/share/pear:/opt/remi/php83/root/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /srv/vhost/example.com/home/html/wp-includes/l10n.php on line 1618
Warning: include(/srv/vhost/example.com/home/html/wp-content/languages/plugins/better-search-replace-ca.l10n.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /srv/vhost/example.com/home/html/wp-includes/l10n.php on line 1618
Warning: include(): Failed opening '/srv/vhost/example.com/home/html/wp-content/languages/plugins/better-search-replace-ca.l10n.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/opt/remi/php83/root/usr/share/pear:/opt/remi/php83/root/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /srv/vhost/example.com/home/html/wp-includes/l10n.php on line 1618
Warning: include(/srv/vhost/example.com/home/html/wp-content/languages/plugins/better-search-replace-es_ES.l10n.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /srv/vhost/example.com/home/html/wp-includes/l10n.php on line 1618
Warning: include(): Failed opening '/srv/vhost/example.com/home/html/wp-content/languages/plugins/better-search-replace-es_ES.l10n.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/opt/remi/php83/root/usr/share/pear:/opt/remi/php83/root/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /srv/vhost/example.com/home/html/wp-includes/l10n.php on line 1618
{"success":true,"data":{"delete":"plugin","slug":"better-search-replace","plugin":"better-search-replace\/better-search-replace.php","pluginName":"Better Search Replace"}}
Site Health Info:
### wp-core ### version: 6.9-RC1-61214 site_language: ca user_language: en_US timezone: Europe/Madrid permalink: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ https_status: true multisite: false user_registration: 0 blog_public: 1 default_comment_status: closed environment_type: production user_count: 2 dotorg_communication: true ### wp-paths-sizes ### wordpress_path: /srv/vhost/example.com/home/html wordpress_size: 54,48 MB (57130374 bytes) uploads_path: /srv/vhost/example.com/home/html/wp-content/uploads uploads_size: 300,00 MB (314575729 bytes) themes_path: /srv/vhost/example.com/home/html/wp-content/themes themes_size: 1,98 MB (2077342 bytes) plugins_path: /srv/vhost/example.com/home/html/wp-content/plugins plugins_size: 47,79 MB (50112616 bytes) fonts_path: /srv/vhost/example.com/home/html/wp-content/uploads/fonts fonts_size: directory not found database_size: 95,86 MB (100515840 bytes) total_size: 500,12 MB (524411901 bytes) ### wp-active-theme ### name: Custom Child Theme (customchildtheme) version: 1.0.0 author: Custom User author_website: http://customuser.com/code/ parent_theme: Custom Theme (customtheme) theme_features: widgets-block-editor, post-thumbnails, menus, editor-style, custom-logo, automatic-feed-links, title-tag, html5, editor-styles, responsive-embeds, customize-selective-refresh-widgets, custom-header, woocommerce, wc-product-gallery-slider, widgets theme_path: /srv/vhost/example.com/home/html/wp-content/themes/customchildtheme auto_update: Disabled ### wp-parent-theme ### name: Custom Theme (customtheme) version: 3.0 author: Custom User author_website: https://customuser.com/code/ theme_path: /srv/vhost/example.com/home/html/wp-content/themes/customtheme auto_update: Disabled ### wp-themes-inactive (1) ### Twenty Twenty-Four: version: 1.3, author: the WordPress team, Auto-updates enabled ### wp-plugins-active (14) ### BBQ Firewall: version: 20250324, author: Jeff Starr, Auto-updates enabled Classic Widgets: version: 0.3, author: WordPress Contributors, Auto-updates enabled Extended Coupon Features for WooCommerce FREE: version: 3.4.0, author: Soft79, Auto-updates enabled Limit Login Attempts Reloaded: version: 2.26.24, author: Limit Login Attempts Reloaded, Auto-updates enabled Polylang: version: 3.7.5, author: WP SYNTEX, Auto-updates enabled Polylang for WooCommerce: version: 2.1.5, author: WP SYNTEX, Auto-updates enabled Rather Simple Mailchimp: version: 2.0, author: Custom User, Auto-updates disabled Rather Simple Social Menu: version: 3.0, author: Custom User, Auto-updates disabled Rather Simple WooCommerce Alternate Product Categories: version: 2.0, author: Custom User, Auto-updates disabled The SEO Framework: version: 5.1.2, author: The SEO Framework Team, Auto-updates enabled Two Factor: version: 0.14.1, author: WordPress.org Contributors, Auto-updates enabled WooCommerce: version: 10.3.4, author: Automattic, Auto-updates enabled WooCommerce Redsys Gateway Light: version: 6.5.0, author: José Conti, Auto-updates enabled YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards: version: 4.29.0, author: YITH, Auto-updates enabled ### wp-media ### image_editor: WP_Image_Editor_Imagick imagick_module_version: 1693 imagemagick_version: ImageMagick 6.9.13-25 Q16 x86_64 18639 https://legacy.imagemagick.org imagick_version: 3.8.0 file_uploads: 1 post_max_size: 32M upload_max_filesize: 32M max_effective_size: 32 MB max_file_uploads: 20 imagick_limits: imagick::RESOURCETYPE_AREA: 128 GB imagick::RESOURCETYPE_DISK: 9.2233720368548E+18 imagick::RESOURCETYPE_FILE: 49152 imagick::RESOURCETYPE_MAP: 64 GB imagick::RESOURCETYPE_MEMORY: 32 GB imagick::RESOURCETYPE_THREAD: 1 imagick::RESOURCETYPE_TIME: 0 imagemagick_file_formats: 3FR, 3G2, 3GP, AAI, AI, APNG, ART, ARW, AVI, AVS, BGR, BGRA, BGRO, BIE, BMP, BMP2, BMP3, BRF, CAL, CALS, CANVAS, CAPTION, CIN, CIP, CLIP, CMYK, CMYKA, CR2, CR3, CRW, CUR, CUT, DATA, DCM, DCR, DCX, DDS, DFONT, DNG, DOT, DPX, DXT1, DXT5, EPDF, EPI, EPS, EPS2, EPS3, EPSF, EPSI, EPT, EPT2, EPT3, ERF, EXR, FAX, FILE, FITS, FLV, FRACTAL, FTP, FTS, G3, G4, GIF, GIF87, GRADIENT, GRAY, GRAYA, GROUP4, GV, H, HALD, HDR, HISTOGRAM, HRZ, HTM, HTML, HTTP, HTTPS, ICB, ICO, ICON, IIQ, INFO, INLINE, IPL, ISOBRL, ISOBRL6, J2C, J2K, JBG, JBIG, JNG, JNX, JP2, JPC, JPE, JPEG, JPG, JPM, JPS, JPT, JSON, K25, KDC, LABEL, M2V, M4V, MAC, MAGICK, MAP, MASK, MAT, MATTE, MEF, MIFF, MKV, MNG, MONO, MOV, MP4, MPC, MPEG, MPG, MRW, MSL, MSVG, MTV, MVG, NEF, NRW, NULL, ORF, OTB, OTF, PAL, PALM, PAM, PANGO, PATTERN, PBM, PCD, PCDS, PCL, PCT, PCX, PDB, PDF, PDFA, PEF, PES, PFA, PFB, PFM, PGM, PGX, PICON, PICT, PIX, PJPEG, PLASMA, PNG, PNG00, PNG24, PNG32, PNG48, PNG64, PNG8, PNM, POCKETMOD, PPM, PREVIEW, PS, PS2, PS3, PSB, PSD, PTIF, PWP, RADIAL-GRADIENT, RAF, RAS, RAW, RGB, RGBA, RGBO, RGF, RLA, RLE, RMF, RW2, SCR, SCT, SFW, SGI, SHTML, SIX, SIXEL, SPARSE-COLOR, SR2, SRF, STEGANO, SUN, SVG, SVGZ, TEXT, TGA, THUMBNAIL, TIFF, TIFF64, TILE, TIM, TTC, TTF, TXT, UBRL, UBRL6, UIL, UYVY, VDA, VICAR, VID, VIDEO, VIFF, VIPS, VST, WBMP, WEBM, WEBP, WMF, WMV, WMZ, WPG, X, X3F, XBM, XC, XCF, XPM, XPS, XV, XWD, YCbCr, YCbCrA, YUV image_format_transforms: image/heic → image/jpeg, image/heif → image/jpeg, image/heic-sequence → image/jpeg, image/heif-sequence → image/jpeg gd_version: 2.3.3 gd_formats: GIF, JPEG, PNG, WebP, BMP, AVIF, XPM ghostscript_version: 9.27 ### wp-server ### server_architecture: Linux 4.18.0-553.81.1.el8_10.x86_64 x86_64 httpd_software: Apache php_version: 8.3.27 64bit php_sapi: fpm-fcgi max_input_variables: 5000 time_limit: 60 memory_limit: 512M max_input_time: 60 upload_max_filesize: 32M php_post_max_size: 32M curl_version: 7.61.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1k suhosin: false imagick_availability: true pretty_permalinks: true htaccess_extra_rules: true static_robotstxt_file: false current: 2025-11-12T09:44:23+00:00 utc-time: Wednesday, 12-Nov-25 09:44:23 UTC server-time: 2025-11-12T10:44:21+01:00 ### wp-database ### extension: mysqli server_version: 8.0.43 client_version: mysqlnd 8.3.27 max_allowed_packet: 16777216 max_connections: 512 ### wp-constants ### WP_HOME: undefined WP_SITEURL: undefined WP_CONTENT_DIR: /srv/vhost/example.com/home/html/wp-content WP_PLUGIN_DIR: /srv/vhost/example.com/home/html/wp-content/plugins WP_MEMORY_LIMIT: 512M WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT: 512M WP_DEBUG: false WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY: true WP_DEBUG_LOG: false SCRIPT_DEBUG: false WP_CACHE: false CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS: undefined COMPRESS_SCRIPTS: undefined COMPRESS_CSS: undefined WP_ENVIRONMENT_TYPE: undefined WP_DEVELOPMENT_MODE: undefined DB_CHARSET: utf8 DB_COLLATE: undefined ### wp-filesystem ### wordpress: writable wp-content: writable uploads: writable plugins: writable themes: writable fonts: does not exist
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5 weeks ago
- Resolution invalid
- Status closed → reopened
Please consider reopening. This reproduces reliably on WordPress 7.0, and I believe the clean install test in comment:1 missed it for a specific reason rather than it being a hosting problem: the warning needs a plugin that calls
wp_get_installed_translations() late in the delete request. A clean install
has none, so it cannot fire there.
Attached is a minimal reproduction. The plugin in it is deliberately inert, a
plugin header and nothing else: no uninstall.php, no hooks, no code that loads
a text domain. The warning does not originate from the plugin being deleted.
Reproduction
- Copy
pcp-l10n-repro/intowp-content/plugins/ - Copy
pcp-l10n-repro-fr_FR.l10n.phpintowp-content/languages/plugins/, with no matching.pofile - Switch the site to a non-English locale, e.g.
wp language core install fr_FR && wp site switch-language fr_FR - Activate WooCommerce, or any plugin that calls
wp_get_installed_translations()frompre_set_site_transient_update_plugins - Set
display_errors = On - Delete the plugin from the Plugins screen
Backtrace
include(.../languages/plugins/pcp-l10n-repro-fr_FR.l10n.php):
Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in wp-includes/l10n.php on line 1682
#1 include (l10n.php:1682)
#2 wp_get_l10n_php_file_data (l10n.php:1642)
#3 wp_get_installed_translations (class-wc-helper-updater.php:502)
#4 WC_Helper_Updater::get_translations_update_data
#5 WC_Helper_Updater::transient_update_plugins
#6 apply_filters( 'pre_set_site_transient_update_plugins' )
#7 set_site_transient (plugin.php:1042)
#8 delete_plugins (ajax-actions.php:4781)
#9 wp_ajax_delete_plugin
Cause
delete_plugins()removes the plugin's.po,.moand.l10n.phpfiles, then
calls set_site_transient( 'update_plugins', ... ) further down the same
function. A callback on that transient calls
wp_get_installed_translations( 'plugins' ), which reads
WP_Textdomain_Registry::get_language_files_from_path(). That glob() result is
cached in the translation_files cache group, so the list still contains the
files deleted moments earlier, and wp_get_l10n_php_file_data() includes each
path with no existence check
Core already has invalidation for this cache in
WP_Textdomain_Registry::invalidate_mo_files_cache(), but it is only wired to
upgrader_process_complete, so a plugin deletion never clears it.
On the user-visible symptom
With display_errors On the warnings are written into the admin-ajax.php
response ahead of the JSON, which breaks parsing and produces the "Deletion
failed" message even though the plugin is removed correctly. With
display_errors Off the deletion looks clean and the warnings only reach the
error log. That is most likely why this did not show up in testing.
Suggested fix
Guard the include, matching what WP_Translation_File::create() already does at
class-wp-translation-file.php:85:
function wp_get_l10n_php_file_data( $php_file ) {
if ( ! is_readable( $php_file ) ) {
return array();
}
$data = (array) include $php_file;
Alternatively, or additionally, invalidate the translation_files cache in
delete_plugins() after removing the language files. The guard seems worth
having either way, since wp_get_l10n_php_file_data() is reachable from any
caller holding a stale path.
I just tested this on a clean WordPress install upgraded to 6.9 RC 1, using two different plugins (one being the same used in this ticket) and no errors were logged. This therefore might be an issue with the hosting service where the problem is happening.