[LON-CAPA-admin] Random Seed issues

[Lucas, Mark]

Stuart and Hon-Kie,

Thanks! I remembered something going by, but couldn’t find it.

Mark

> On Apr 17, 2020, at 5:01 PM, Raeburn, Stuart <raeburn at msu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Mark,
> 
> See: mail.lon-capa.org/pipermail/lon-capa-admin/2019-April/003398.html
> which refers to bug 6903.
> 
> A comment in that bug report includes information about the version of default_homework.lcpm you can use with 2.11.2 if you encounter this (rare) bug, and want to prevent it.
> 
> Stuart Raeburn
> LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
> ________________________________________
> From: LON-CAPA-admin <lon-capa-admin-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org> on behalf of Lucas, Mark <lucasm at ohio.edu>
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2020 4:50 PM
> To: lon-capa-admin at mail.lon-capa.org
> Subject: [LON-CAPA-admin] Random Seed issues
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I apologize, because I think this might have gone by before, but we have a student running a version of a problem
> where we get the following error:
> 
> Usage: random_set_seed(@seed)
> @seed[0,1] must be two integers in the range (1,1) to (2147483562,2147483398) and usually comes from a call to random_get_seed() or random_seed_from_phrase($phrase). at /usr/local/lib64/perl5/Safe/Hole.pm line 68 This occurred while running:
> 
> Is this one of those 1 in 2147483562 kind of errors? Is there a patch or workaround for this?
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
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> Mark Lucas                                                              email: lucasm at ohio.edu
> 252D Clippinger Lab                                             phone: (740)597-2984
> Department of Physics and Astronomy                     fax: (740)593-0433
> Ohio University
> Athens, OH 45701
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Mark Lucas 								email: lucasm at ohio.edu
252D Clippinger Lab						phone: (740)597-2984
Department of Physics and Astronomy			fax: (740)593-0433
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701