[LON-CAPA-admin] Course not re-initializing

[Stuart Raeburn]

Hi,

> I have seen it once in 2.10.  I have no idea what I did to make the   
> "reinitialize the course" button disappear from the corse edit page,  
>  but as you say, logging out and back in (in my case the same  
> server)  reinitialized everything fine.

Based on Mark's description, I would say this is different.

In your case, the "Re-initializing the course" button was not  
displayed on the Course Editor page, but it was possible for you to  
continue working in the same course on the same server (albeit after  
logout/log-in).

It seems that in your case state information for the Course Editor  
page went missing somehow, such that there was no longer a directive  
to include the button when the page was being generated server-side.

My expectation is that re-selecting the course role from the roles  
screen would have also solved the issue (in the same way as did  
logout/re-login).

In the case Mark described, logout/re-login was insufficient, and the  
user need to use a different server. Nightly clean up of stale files  
in /home/httpd/perl/tmp on the original 2.9.0 server where the issue  
occurred will have eventually returned that server to a state where  
the specific user could once again continue working in that specific  
course on that specific server.

Stuart Raeburn
MSU LON-CAPA group


Quoting James Mueller <mueller at pitt.edu>:

> I have seen it once in 2.10.  I have no idea what I did to make the   
> "reinitialize the course" button disappear from the corse edit page,  
>  but as you say, logging out and back in (in my case the same  
> server)  reinitialized everything fine.
>
> -Jim
>
>
> On Oct 11, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Lucas, Mark wrote:
>
>> A user ran into a problem editing his course. He was not able to   
>> reinitialize the
>> course from within LON-CAPA on his server.
>>
>> When he logged into a different server, everything was fine.
>>
>> It was probably related to the id file.
>>
>> I seem to remember this happening to others. Does anyone know what causes
>> it? (Clicking to quickly and interrupting changes?). They are using  
>>  2.9.0, so this
>> may have been fixed in 2.10.
>>
>> Thanks for any input,
>> Mark
>>
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>> Mark Lucas 								email: lucasm at ohiou.edu
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>>