So if you have strange problems after manually updating wordpress to 2.6 and you’re using Dreamhost I suggest you comment out
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
in the wp-config.php that is located your blog’s root directory.
I was following along with the upgrade instructions from wordpress.org. After updating all the files, I went to this blog’s wp-admin dir where it is supposed to perform a database update. Instead I got a page full of errors. The first went something like this:
Warning: array_keys() [function.array-keys]: The first argument should be an array wp-includes/widgets.php on line 686
Commenting the line above (by adding // to the beginning of it) fixed the problem. Just fyi.
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