[LON-CAPA-admin] problem with exam upload in DOCS

[lucasm at ohiou.edu]

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Nathan Schoenack wrote:

> I see that no one was too eager to jump on this one.  Good news.  It was 
> fixed overnight by some magic or other unexplainable phenomenon.

... which hints that one of these temporary files that gets cleaned up by 
gremlins in the wee hours of the morning may have somehow gotten 
corrupted.

Can someone give the 1 per line overview of these temporary files?

The id files under /home/httpd/lonIDs hold all of the session information 
for a user login (things that only want to be parsed once) and are cleaned 
up if a student exits properly.

There was some discussion of a file existing under a user's LON-CAPA
directory? Could this have been the culprit?

Mark


> Call off  the dogs.
>
> -Nathan
>
> On Sep 21, 2005, at 4:11 PM, Nathan Schoenack wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I've got a very strange problem.  I imported a published document (an exam 
>> upload problem) into DOCS in the Main Course Documents area.  I uploaded 
>> the scores without any problems.  Then the professor for which I was doing 
>> this found 3 errors in the key he used to correct the problem.  So, I 
>> figured what I'd do was to make a new problem (exam upload type again), and 
>> then upload the corrected scores to this problem.
>> 
>> However, when I remove the problem from DOCS (or hide it) and import the 
>> new problem it won't show up in the NAV menu--all I see is the old problem 
>> (even after deleting the folder and problem).  But it is definitely visible 
>> if I go through the DOCS menu.  While in DOCS if I click on the new problem 
>> I get a message:
>> 
>> LON-CAPA Access Control
>> 
>> Access  : Browse resources
>> Resource: 
>> /res/ndsu/physics/ExamUpload/Exam1_Scores_PHYS211_corrected.problem
>> Action  : Invalid Access
>> 
>> What's really irritating/confusing me is that if I log in as a student I 
>> can see the new problem in my NAV menu, but when I click on it I get the 
>> same error message as shown above.
>> 
>> I've tried:
>> 1. Re-initializing the course after every time I delete the problem and if 
>> I import the new one
>> 2. A different browser (same behavior with Firefox or Safari)
>> 3. Re-publishing the problem.
>> 
>> I feel I should mention that, for this new problem I wrote to upload the 
>> corrected test scores, I just copied and pasted the XML code...but the 
>> problem has a different name (Exam1_Scores_PHYS211.problem vs. 
>> Exam1_Scores_PHYS211_corrected.problem).  I also should mention that if I 
>> click on the old problem I don't get a PGRD button in my remote.
>> 
>> I'm thoroughly confused and would greatly appreciate any help.  It's 
>> driving me nuts.
>> 
>> Nathan Schoenack
>> IT Research Support Specialist
>> NDSU Physics
>> (701) 231-7047
>> nathan.schoenack at ndsu.edu
>> 
>> 
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>
> Nathan Schoenack
> IT Research Support Specialist
> NDSU Physics
> (701) 231-7047
> nathan.schoenack at ndsu.edu
>
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