[LON-CAPA-admin] LON-CAPA version 2.6.2

[Lars Jensen]

Hi Stuart,

We just upgraded, and after that I can't get to the login page.

Lars.

Stuart Peter Raeburn wrote:
> New Version 2.6.2 Released
> This is primarily a bug fix release for versions 2.6.0 and 2.6.1
> It is highly recommended to update 2.6.0 or 2.6.1 installations with 
> 2.6.2 if LON-CAPA is used for scantron grading in your domain.
> Changes from 2.6.1
> Bug fixes:
> - Validation of scantron files again accommodates optionresponse, 
> matchresponse and rankresponse problems (multiple bubble lines are used 
> in a single problem in these cases).
> - Bridge Tasks to be graded are again listed as items for handgrading in 
> the What's New page.
> - Edit XML and Edit links for a file in a directory listing in Construction
> Space go directly to the corresponding edit screen, again, as expected.
> - Day of the week is now correct when language preference is not English.
> - LaTeX jobs stuck in a loop now timeout and cease to consume processor
> time.
> - When cloning a course, usernames set in course parameters (e.g.,
> recipients of messages about course policy, content etc.) are no longer
> copied to the new course.
> - Link/Button to access Construction Space now added to Main Menu/Remote
> Control for Assistant Co-authors.
> - A table of contents is available again in the PDF version of the 
> Author Manual.
> Enhancements:
> - Practice problems are marked as "not graded" in a course's table of
> contents.
> - Solution of a practice problem results in a message that "submissions for
> practice problems are not preserved" instead of a receipt.
> - Resources can be printed with associated annotations made by the user.
> - The problem type (exam, survey or homework) can be specified when 
> printing a problem in Construction Space.
> - Some localization updates.
> - Some German translations added or updated.
> To install this update:
> 1) You will need to be running Fedora Core 6, 7, or 8, RHEL (AS|ES) 4 or 5,
> SUSE 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, or 10.3, SLES 9 or 10, CentOS 5, Scientific Linux 5
>   (Fedora Core 5 should continue to work but is deprecated.)
> 
> 2) If necessary update to the current LONCAPA-prerequisites (1-10), and
> replace gnuplot_loncapa with gnuplot 4.2.  Note: if you already updated to
> 2.6.0 or 2.6.1, you will have already done this so you can skip this step.
> (a) Fedora
> For Fedora 5 and 6 you will need to import the LON-CAPA public key.  For
> Fedora 7 and 8, it is assumed that this occurred previously during the 
> original installation.
> rpm --import http://install.loncapa.org/versions/fedora/RPM-GPG-KEY-loncapa
> yum update --obsoletes
> (b) RedHat Enterprise 4
> up2date -u LONCAPA-prerequisites
> up2date -i gnuplot
> (c) Red Hat 5/Centos 5/Scientific Linux 5
> yum update --obsoletes
> (d) SuSE/SLES
> Use yast-> Installation Source to refresh the LON-CAPA repository
> Use yast->Software Management->Search to update LONCAPA-prerequisites (to
> version  1-10), install gnuplot and delete gnuplot_loncapa.
> On all distributions, it is recommended that you check that you have the
> correct versions of LONCAPA-prequisites and gnuplot installed before
> proceeding.
> rpm -q LONCAPA-prerequisites
> rpm -q gnuplot
> should report:
> LONCAPA-prerequisites-1-10.X
> gnuplot-4.2.0.X
> (where X is a distro identifier e.g., fc7.lc)
> 
> 3) Download the new LON-CAPA tarball from
> wget http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-2.6.2.tar.gz
> and untar it
> tar xzvf loncapa-2.6.2.tar.gz
> 
> 4) stop the LON-CAPA system services
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol stop
> 
> 5) stop the webserver:
> Fedora/RHEL:
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop
> SUSE 9.X/SLES 9:
> /etc/init.d/apache stop
> SUSE 10.X/SLES 10:
> /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
> 
> 6) Run the UPDATE script as root
> cd loncapa-2.6.2
> su
> ./UPDATE
> 
> 7) restart the LON-CAPA system services
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol start
> 
> 8) restart the webserver:
> Fedora/RHEL:
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start
> SUSE 9.X/SLES 9:
> /etc/init.d/apache start
> SUSE 10.X/SLES 10:
> /etc/init.d/apache2 start
> 
> ----NOTES
> 1) Many questions are answered at http://help.lon-capa.org
> 2) Defects reports, and enhancements requests can be entered at
> http://bugs.lon-capa.org
> 3) Mailing lists can be joined and left at http://mail.lon-capa.org
> 
> Stuart Raeburn
> MSU LON-CAPA group
> 
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