Drupal silently refuses to check for updates

By calavicci on 10 Dec 2014 at 05:31 UTC

I'm a complete Drupal n00b, so please forgive me if I have missed something obvious.

I'm trying to get the update script set up for a fresh D7 installation, but no matter what I do, the status page says

 Drupal core update status                           No update data available
 No update information available. Run cron or check manually.

and the available updates page says

 Last checked: never (Check manually)
 No update information available. Run cron or check manually.

Checking manually changes nothing. Clearing the cache and trying again changes nothing.

The thing I find really weird is that there are no error reports anywhere, unless one includes the above: not on the update page, not on any of the other pages, not in Drupal's log, not in apache's logs, not in anything from PHP with full error reporting turned on... nothing.

Google and the Drupal docs and fora don't seem to have anything useful to say, at least as far as I have found.

Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

Edit: If it helps, I'm running Drupal 7.14, Debian 7.7 with Backports, Linux 3.16.5.

Comments

Do you have the update module

nevets commented 10 December 2014 at 06:10

Do you have the update module enabled?

I assume that the "update"

calavicci commented 10 December 2014 at 06:17

I assume that the "update" module is the same as the "update manager" module. If so, then yes, I do. If not, then no, I don't, and I don't know how to get it.

Same thing. Are you really

nevets commented 10 December 2014 at 06:48

Same thing. Are you really running Drupal 7.14? The latest version is 7.34

It's the lastest version in

calavicci commented 10 December 2014 at 06:53

It's the lastest version in debian-stable. I can pull from backports or testing if you think it'll do me any good.

I would suggest getting

nevets commented 10 December 2014 at 16:10

I would suggest getting Drupal directly from drupal.org under "Download & Extend"

Old installation wiped, new

calavicci commented 11 December 2014 at 17:59

Old installation wiped, new version installed from scratch, just to be safe. No change in behavior.

Any ideas as to at what else I might look to diagnose this thing?

Have you considered that it

Jaypan commented 12 December 2014 at 00:28

Have you considered that it may be working and there are no updates that need to be made?

DNS Issue?

sjhuskey commented 22 November 2016 at 21:08

I just fixed this issue by editing /etc/hosts. The site's own DNS entry wasn't in that file. Once I added it, updates were found and installed by running drush pm-update.

To see if this is your issue, type "ping -c 10 updates.drupal.org" on the command line when logged into your server. If it returns "Unknown host," then your problem is likely not in Drupal, but in the DNS configuration.