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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Comment #2
cilefen commentedThis 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?
Comment #3
cilefen commentedDoes browsing to /update.php work?
Comment #4
serge_teodori commentedHi 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
Comment #5
quietone commentedThe 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
Un-assigning per Assigning ownership of a Drupal core issue.