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Drush silently fails to update core Drupal 7 installation - why?

For some reason, drush is reporting successful upgrade of a core Drupal installation from version 7.56 to 7.58, however it is only partially doing the job! See below. Only updates a few files, should be a lot more than this as in all core modules/ files, as a minimum, it should update the version number.

After this, if I run drush status again it gives an identical report, so after it has told me:

Project drupal was updated successfully. Installed version is now 7.58.

I still see that we remain on 7.56. Any ideas? I have ensured that there are rwx permissions for the user over the Temporary file directory path and Drush temp directory and tested this with running touch to test can create and read a file. How can I debug/resolve this issue?

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Here is another run of the update with the --verbose flag (for more info), which renders the same result. Still, I can't spot an issue here.

[rootuser]:public_html$ drush pm-update drupal --verbose
Executing: mysql --defaults-extra-file=/tmp/drush_XlJ3hK --database=myapp9name --host=localhost --silent  < /tmp/drush_anVSdw
Executing: mysql --defaults-extra-file=/tmp/drush_bdl4sc --database=myapp9name --host=localhost --silent  < /tmp/drush_Jr6xnY
Loading release_info engine.                                                                   [notice]
Loading version_control engine.                                                                [notice]
Loading package_handler engine.                                                                [notice]
Executing: wget --version
Loading update_status engine.                                                                  [notice]
/usr/bin/php /home/master/.composer/vendor/drush/drush/drush.php --php=/usr/bin/php            [notice]
--backend=2 --verbose --root=/home/123456.myapps.com/myapp9name/public_html
--uri=http://default  pm-updatestatus drupal 2>&1
Update information last refreshed: Wed, 04/04/2018 - 13:38
 Name    Installed Version  Proposed version  Message                   
 Drupal  7.56               7.58              SECURITY UPDATE available 


Code updates will be made to drupal core.
WARNING:  Updating core will discard any modifications made to Drupal core files, most noteworthy among these are .htaccess and robots.txt.  If you have made any modifications to these files, please back them up before updating so that you can re-create your modifications in the updated version of the file.
Note: Updating core can potentially break your site. It is NOT recommended to update production sites without prior testing.

Do you really want to continue? (y/n): y
Executing: svn info /home/123456.myapps.com/myapp9name/public_html/drupal-7.58
Executing: bzr root /home/123456.myapps.com/myapp9name/public_html/drupal-7.58
/home/master/.drush/cache/download/https---ftp.drupal.org-files-projects-drupal-7.58.tar.gz    [notice]
retrieved from cache.
Downloading drupal-7.58.tar.gz was successful.                                                 [notice]
Md5 checksum of drupal-7.58.tar.gz verified.                                                   [notice]
Executing: tar  -C /tmp/drush_tmp_1522848874_5ac4d46a6a4a4 -xzf drupal-7.58.tar.gz
Executing: tar -tzf drupal-7.58.tar.gz
Project drupal was updated successfully. Installed version is now 7.58.
Backups were saved into the directory                                                       [ok]
/home/master/drush-backups/myapp9name/20180404133418/drupal.
Command dispatch complete                                                                      [notice]
/usr/bin/php /home/master/.composer/vendor/drush/drush/drush.php --php=/usr/bin/php            [notice]
--backend=2 --verbose --root=/home/123456.myapps.com/myapp9name/public_html
--uri=http://default  updatedb 2>&1
Executing: mysql --defaults-extra-file=/tmp/drush_ewbZAj --database=myapp9name --host=localhost --silent  < /tmp/drush_KTg0dp
Executing: mysql --defaults-extra-file=/tmp/drush_Shazn8 --database=myapp9name --host=localhost --silent  < /tmp/drush_RddgZd
No database updates required                                                                [success]
Command dispatch complete                                                                      [notice]
Command dispatch complete                                                                      [notice]
Solution

  • This was resolved by manually updating Drupal core using option 3, see below.

    https://www.drupal.org/docs/7/update/core-option-3