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

[Lars Jensen]

I'm not sure what the problem is, but loncontrol seems to load much 
slower than normally, after the upgrade. I tried to downgrade to 2.6.1 
and even 2.5.3, but the same problem remains. loncontrol loads very 
slowly. It probably takes 30-60 seconds before lonmemcashed appear.

Lars.

Lars Jensen wrote:
> 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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