Solution -> Fatal error: Allowed memory size exhausted wp-includes/class.wp-dependencies.php on line 339
Recently one of our Managed WordPress Services clients came to me to describe a problem with a WordPress site they were working on.
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They were receiving an error: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 71 bytes) in /***REDACTED_PATH***/wp-includes/class.wp-dependencies.php on line 339
The client described that they had not done any kind of upgrades or changes to cause the issue and asked about whether we did any upgrades as part of the weekly site reviews we do under the Managed WordPress Service. I found in the weekly email report sent by another person in our office, that we had done some upgrades, however the file that was throwing the error (class.wp-dependencies.php) had not been updated. So I had to dig in deeper to find the root cause.
I ended up writing some debugging code that I placed directly in class.wp-dependencies.php that helped me to identify some of the causes. Because I found lots of other sites when googling that had the same error, I decided I would post the debugging code, in the case that it helps other users debug their issue. The issue ended up being that site had an enqueued script jquery which dependency on jquery-migrate which in turn had a dependency on jquery. This circular reference looped in the WP code until the server ran out of memory. (in this case it was about 128MB).
The theme and plugins had two locations which enqueued jquery scripts, one was enqueud BEFORE a dependency existed, then a dependency was created and the script was queued again. The code I wrote is intended for debuggin purposes, because the the issue could easily come from other issues, and I wanted to see the backtrace for exactly where the problematic scripts (jquery, jquery-migrate) were queued from.
Here is the output from my code:
MATRAEX Debugging Code This WordPress project has circular dependencies
Aborting script execution at /***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/class.wp-dependencies.php:400
Debugging tip look for theme code that calls ‘enqueue’ on for items which already have dependencies)
If this error did not show, your script would have likely errored on line 339 when it ran out of memory from the circular debugging.
Most likely this is a plugin error!!
jquery has a dependency on jquery-migrate which has a circular dependecy on jquery
Backtrace of when jquery was enqueued:
Instance 0:
#0 WP_Dependencies->enqueue(jquery) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/functions.wp-scripts.php:276] #1 wp_enqueue_script(jquery, http://dev.art4healing.org/wp-content/plugins/jquery-updater/js/jquery-3.1.1.min.js, , 3.1.1) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-content/plugins/jquery-updater/jquery-updater.php:26] #2 rw_jquery_updater() #3 call_user_func_array(rw_jquery_updater, Array ([0] => )) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/plugin.php:524] #4 do_action(wp_enqueue_scripts) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/script-loader.php:1197] #5 wp_enqueue_scripts() #6 call_user_func_array(wp_enqueue_scripts, Array ([0] => )) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/plugin.php:524] #7 do_action(wp_head) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/general-template.php:2555] #8 wp_head() called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-content/themes/Parallax-One/header.php:19] #9 require_once(/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-content/themes/Parallax-One/header.php) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/template.php:572] #10 load_template(/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-content/themes/Parallax-One/header.php, 1) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/template.php:531] #11 locate_template(Array ([0] => header.php), 1) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/general-template.php:45] #12 get_header() called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-content/themes/Parallax-One/front-page.php:5] #13 include(/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-content/themes/Parallax-One/front-page.php) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/template-loader.php:75] #14 require_once(/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/template-loader.php) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-blog-header.php:19] #15 require(/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-blog-header.php) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/index.php:17]
Instance 1:
#0 WP_Dependencies->enqueue(jquery) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/functions.wp-scripts.php:276] #1 wp_enqueue_script(jquery) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/nggallery.php:513] #2 C_NextGEN_Bootstrap->fix_jquery() #3 call_user_func_array(Array ([0] => C_NextGEN_Bootstrap Object ([_registry] => C_Component_Registry Object ([_searched_paths] => Array ( ....... #4 do_action(wp_enqueue_scripts) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/script-loader.php:1197] #5 wp_enqueue_scripts() #6 call_user_func_array(wp_enqueue_scripts, Array ([0] => )) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/plugin.php:524] #7 do_action(wp_head) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/general-template.php:2555] #8 wp_head() called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-content/themes/Parallax-One/header.php:19] #9 require_once(/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-content/themes/Parallax-One/header.php) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/template.php:572] #10 load_template(/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-content/themes/Parallax-One/header.php, 1) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/template.php:531] #11 locate_template(Array ([0] => header.php), 1) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/general-template.php:45] #12 get_header() called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-content/themes/Parallax-One/front-page.php:5] #13 include(/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-content/themes/Parallax-One/front-page.php) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/template-loader.php:75] #14 require_once(/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/template-loader.php) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-blog-header.php:19] #15 require(/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-blog-header.php) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/index.php:17]
jquery-migrate has a dependency on jquery which has a circular dependecy on jquery-migrate
Backtrace of when jquery-migrate was enqueued:
Instance 0:
#0 WP_Dependencies->enqueue(jquery-migrate) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/functions.wp-scripts.php:276] #1 wp_enqueue_script(jquery-migrate, http://dev.art4healing.org/wp-content/plugins/jquery-updater/js/jquery-migrate-3.0.0.min.js, Array ([0] => jquery), 3.0.0) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-content/plugins/jquery-updater/jquery-updater.php:32] #2 rw_jquery_updater() #3 call_user_func_array(rw_jquery_updater, Array ([0] => )) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/plugin.php:524] #4 do_action(wp_enqueue_scripts) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/script-loader.php:1197] #5 wp_enqueue_scripts() #6 call_user_func_array(wp_enqueue_scripts, Array ([0] => )) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/plugin.php:524] #7 do_action(wp_head) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/general-template.php:2555] #8 wp_head() called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-content/themes/Parallax-One/header.php:19] #9 require_once(/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-content/themes/Parallax-One/header.php) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/template.php:572] #10 load_template(/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-content/themes/Parallax-One/header.php, 1) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/template.php:531] #11 locate_template(Array ([0] => header.php), 1) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/general-template.php:45] #12 get_header() called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-content/themes/Parallax-One/front-page.php:5] #13 include(/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-content/themes/Parallax-One/front-page.php) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/template-loader.php:75] #14 require_once(/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-includes/template-loader.php) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-blog-header.php:19] #15 require(/***PATH_REDACTED***/wp-blog-header.php) called at [/***PATH_REDACTED***/index.php:17]
Add this following code to the query() function, just before the return statement withing the the “case ‘queue’ :” line in the file wp-includes/class.wp-dependencies.php. (in the version current as of this writing it is about line 387)
//BEGIN NON WP CODE - MATRAEX foreach($this->queue as $queued) $check[$queued]=$this->registered[ $queued ]->deps; foreach($check as $queued => $deparr) foreach($deparr as $depqueued) if($check[$depqueued] && in_array($queued,$check[$depqueued])) $recursivedependencies[$queued]= $depqueued; if($recursivedependencies) { $_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT] = str_replace("/home","/data",$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]); ob_start(); echo "
MATRAEX Debugging Code
blog post
This WordPress project has circular dependencies
Aborting script execution at “.__FILE__.”:”.__LINE__.”
Debugging tip look for theme code that calls ‘enqueue’ on for items which already have dependencies)
If this error did not show, your script would have likely errored on line 339 when it ran out of memory from the circular debugging.
Most likely this is a plugin error!!
“; global $enqueue_backtrace; foreach($recursivedependencies as $queued =>$depqueued) { echo ”
$queued has a dependency on $depqueued which has a circular dependecy on $queued” ; echo ”
Backtrace of when $queued was enqueued: “; foreach($enqueue_backtrace[$queued] as $k=>$lines) { echo ”
Instance $k:"; foreach(explode("\n",$lines) as $line) if(strstr($line,'enqueue')) echo "$line\n"; echo "“;
}
}
$out=ob_get_clean();
$out = str_replace($_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT],”/***PATH_REDACTED***/”,$out);
$out = str_replace(“/plugins/”,”/plugins/”,$out);
$out = str_replace(“/themes/”,”/themes/”,$out);
echo $out;
exit;
}
//END NON WP CODE – MATRAEX
The full function code should look like this
In Addition, add the following code to the enqueue function just below the line with public function enqueue () at the time of this writing, that wa about line 378 of wp-includes/class.wp-dependencies.php.
//BEGIN NON WP CODE - MATRAEX global $enqueue_backtrace; ob_start(); debug_print_backtrace(); $enqueue_backtrace[$handles][] = ob_get_clean(); //END NON WP CODE - MATRAEX
The full function code should look like this