After migrating from 11.3.13 to 11.4.1, drupal stopped working correctly. Every administration page reports 'The website encountered an unexpected error'. In the web server log is following message:

[Sun Jul 05 20:19:13.615963 2026] [php:notice] [pid 8232:tid 8232] [client 192.168.16.60:55250] Uncaught PHP Exception Drupal\\Component\\Plugin\\Exception\\PluginException: "Plugin (help_search) instance class "Drupal\\help\\Plugin\\Search\\HelpSearch" does not exist." at /var/www/drupal-11.4.1/core/lib/Drupal/Component/Plugin/Factory/DefaultFactory.php line 97, referer: https://blog.home.lan/

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serge_teodori created an issue. See original summary.

cilefen’s picture

Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)
Issue tags: +Possible duplicate

This issue seems to duplicate a bit of #3607866: Scaffold plugin does not always create autoload_runtime.php when upgrading to 11.4.

Did you omit the cache rebuild upgrade step?

cilefen’s picture

Does browsing to /update.php work?

serge_teodori’s picture

Hi cilefen,

Thank you very much for your help, using the 'updata.php' worked (had a few database updates to perform). Fyi I did not run any specifique command after pointing to new version (I did not rebuild any caches). It was also the first time I haven't been redirected to the 'update.php' page.

Best regards,
Serge Teodori

quietone’s picture

Version: 11.4.x-dev » main
Assigned: serge_teodori » Unassigned
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (duplicate)
Issue tags: -Possible duplicate

The error message is about the help_search plugin. Therefor, I am closing this as a duplicate of #3608897: Drupal 11.4 update fails on The "help_search" plugin does not exist

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