How do I recover a site after WordPress' Automatic Update has failed?

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Published on 2011-03-02T00:32:02Z Indexed on 2011/03/02 7:32 UTC
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I manage several WordPress websites, and successfully recently used the Automatic Upgrade feature to bring them up to 3.1. However, on one of the sites, I received a 503 (I believe it was 503). After that I was presented with "The service is unavailable." whenever I tried to access any page, including the index page, wp-admin, etc. I had similar problems before when a WordPress site got stuck in maintenance mode, and all I needed to do was login via FTP and rename or delete the .maintenance file. I tried that in this case, but that didn't do the trick. I am now presented with "Fatal error: Call to undefined function require_wp_db() in **\wp-settings.php on line 71"

I can't figure out how to fix this problem, and I was wondering if anyone else had any ideas.

Any suggestions are appreciated! Thank you for reading.

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