Can't install themes. addons but permissions ok

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    pingulino2 · Member ·

    I recently set up a new server runninng Ubuntu 12.4
    I have currently 2 websites one using WordPress 3.2.1 the other 3.4.1 and same problem in both.
    My problem is that no themes, plugins or add-ons can be installed automatically, also upgrading the 3.2.1 doesn’t work.

    The directory wp-content/ & all files & subdirs are ftp-user:www-data with permission 775.
    All other are ftpuser:ftpgroup 755
    My user-account is a ftp-account only, pureftpd-mysql, user mapped to ftpuser:ftpgroup.

    What happens (example from theme installation):
    1) Message “Package is being downloaded”
    2) Message “Unpacking package”
    3) Message “Installing theme”
    4) Message “Could not copy file wp-content/themes/picochic/includes/theme-options.js”
    It always stops with this “could not copy…” but the file & location differs.
    Also sometimes I get that during the Unpacking stage.

    I’m checking in terminal during installation, files and dirs are created under both :
    ls -l wp-content/upgrade/picochic.tmp/picochic/
    total 84
    -rw-r--r-- 1 ftpuser ftpgroup 1944 Aug 1 10:32 comments.php
    -rw-r--r-- 1 ftpuser ftpgroup 2447 Aug 1 10:32 header.php
    drwxr-xr-x 4 ftpuser ftpgroup 4096 Aug 1 10:32 images
    drwxr-xr-x 2 ftpuser ftpgroup 4096 Aug 1 10:31 includes
    drwxr-xr-x 2 ftpuser ftpgroup 4096 Aug 1 10:31 js
    drwxr-xr-x 2 ftpuser ftpgroup 4096 Aug 1 10:31 languages
    -rw-r--r-- 1 ftpuser ftpgroup 1392 Aug 1 10:31 readme.txt
    -rw-r--r-- 1 ftpuser ftpgroup 51978 Aug 1 10:32 screenshot.png
    ls -l wp-content/themes/picochic/includes
    total 8
    -rw-r--r-- 1 ftpuser ftpgroup 1436 Aug 1 10:35 jquery-scripts.js
    -rw-r--r-- 1 ftpuser ftpgroup 194 Aug 1 10:35 theme-options.css
    -rw-r--r-- 1 ftpuser ftpgroup 0 Aug 1 10:35 theme-options.js

    So it simply can’t be a permission issue.
    And there’s plenty of space on disk, I can manually copy and install things that way.
    Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/xvda1 60G 25G 32G 44% /
    udev 2.9G 4.0K 2.9G 1% /dev
    tmpfs 1.2G 204K 1.2G 1% /run
    none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
    none 3.0G 0 3.0G 0% /run/shm
    I downloaded the package for this theme and checked, there is nothing wrong with the file “picochic/includes/theme-options.js”

    No other errors in any logs than this “could not copy…”

    Versions:
    HIred vps “cloud server”
    Ubuntu 12.4
    Apache version 2.2.22
    Php 5.3.10
    Several typo3-sites works fine, also 3 Magento installations works fine.

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