[LON-CAPA-admin] 0.6.1 update problem

[Ray Batchelor]

Hi Gerd,
         We knew already about the fact that the update overwrites our 
localauth.pm and the need to restore our own version of it.  I believe 
Martin took care of that before.  I don't believe that the update 
overwrites ckid.pm but we can check that again....

On January 23, 2003 06:09 am, Gerd Kortemeyer wrote:
> Martin,
>
> Indeed, it looks like the problem is connected with localauth.pm and
> ckid.pm, the local routines used for the portal authentication at
> SFU. It looks like our installation routine overwrote your local
> implementation of localauth.pm (it should not!!!), as indicated by
>
> Can't locate localauth.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> /home/httpd/lib/perl/ /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at
> /home/httpd/perl/lond line 79. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
> /home/httpd/perl/lond line 79.
>
> - "compilation aborted" means that lond did not even start, which is
> what we saw. Sorry for that.
>
> Next time, to work around what we are doing to your box, please put
> your current localauth.pm and ckid.pm someplace safe (they should be
> in /home/httpd/lib/perl/), run the install, and put your backup
> copies back into place after the install.
>
> - Gerd.
>
> Martin Siegert wrote:
> > Hi Gerd,
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 04:09:12PM -0500, Gerd Kortemeyer wrote:
> > > Could you please email
> > >
> > > /home/httpd/perl/logs/lond_errors
> > >
> > > to the list?
> >
> > I attach it to this message (it is modified by deleting duplicated
> > lines and insterting "(same line repeated xxx times)" which always
> > refers to the preceeding line.
> >
> > Since the file does not contain time stamps, I do not know whether
> > these messages correspond to yesterdays attempts to get 0.6.1 going
> > or whether they actually refer to 0.6 which we reinstalled around
> > 18:00 PST yesterday.
> >
> > Nevertheless, there are some hints that there is a problem with our
> > localauth system. Although I have no idea how that can result in
> > con_lost to all other loncapa hosts. My impression was that the
> > latter problem (which stopped us dead) is the real problem. I also
> > have no idea why localauth would break with 0.6.1 and not with 0.6.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Martin
> >
> >  
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------
> >-----
> >
> >    lond_errorsName: lond_errors
> >               Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
>
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