[LON-CAPA-admin] LON-CAPA version 2.6.2
Lars Jensen
ljensen at tmcc.edu
Thu Feb 7 02:27:11 EST 2008
Hi Stuart,
Only one of the files below has any content and this is lond_errors. It
looks like this:
Undefined subroutine &localenroll::instcode_format called at
/home/httpd/perl/lond line 4459, <GEN49> line 550.
Undefined subroutine &localenroll::instcode_format called at
/home/httpd/perl/lond line 4459, <GEN67> line 141.
Undefined subroutine &localenroll::instcode_format called at
/home/httpd/perl/lond line 4459, <GEN71> line 272.
Undefined subroutine &localenroll::instcode_format called at
/home/httpd/perl/lond line 4459, <GEN75> line 96.
Lars.
Stuart Peter Raeburn wrote:
> Lars,
> The changes between 2.6.1 and 2.6.2 were confined to a small number of
> changes in 30 perl modules in /home/httpd/lib/perl/Apache, and I would
> not expect any of those changes to impact daemons started by
> /etc/init.d/loncontrol
> Is there any information in the log files in /home/httpd/perl/logs,
> e.g., in:
> lonmemcached_errors
> lonsql_errors
> lonc_errors
> lond_errors
> What is reported by:
> ps aux |grep memcached
> As I recall you are running SuSE 10.2. Upgrade to LON-CAPA 2.6.2 worked
> for me without trouble on SuSE 10.2 (32 bit) when I tried it, and I've
> also upgraded all the MSU production servers to LON-CAPA 2.6.2 (a mix of
> Linux distros/architectures) without incident over the past two days.
> Have you needed to update any SuSE packages recently? (Look for logs in
> /var/log/YaST2).
> Stuart Raeburn
> MSU LON-CAPA group
>
> Lars Jensen writes:
>>
>> 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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