[LON-CAPA-dev] Role suddenly not working - JMU

[Gerd Kortemeyer]

Hi,

Usually, there is a piece of JavaScript on the Roles screen that stops  
you from selecting the same button twice.

- Gerd.

On Feb 5, 2009, at 3:55 PM, Stefan Bisitz wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It seems that a second click on the "select" button on the roles  
> screen messes up the already running course initialization. I assume  
> that the db files are not properly set up and a deletion could help.  
> This (or something with the same effect) is automatically done over  
> night due to a LON-CAPA cron job.
>
> It has always been just an issue with one user account on one server  
> with one course. All other combinations works absolutely fine after  
> this one combination failed.
>
> That is what I remember.
>
> Stefan Bisitz
>
>
> On 05.02.09, Mark Lucas <lucasm@ohio.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Gerd,
>>
>> It looks like things are working again for him. Unfortunately, we  
>> won't
>> know whether it was the fix of the roles.db or just waiting 12 hours.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 14:40 -0500, Gerd Kortemeyer wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Could you please have the user login to another machine, like for
>> > example s10.lite.msu.edu, and see if the session comes up  
>> correctly?
>> > You'll need to change the "domain" field on the login screen.
>> >
>> > - Gerd.
>> >
>> > On Feb 5, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Mark Lucas wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hmmm ... did you try deleting the ID files or was it even
>> > > independent of
>> > > that? (so somehow buried in the cache?)
>> > >
>> > > Mark
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 20:08 +0100, Peter Riegler wrote:
>> > >> Hi,
>> > >>
>> > >> this looks exactly like what had happened to me several times.  
>> The
>> > >> first
>> > >> time was about 18 months ago.
>> > >> My usual remedy is to log into another loncapa-Server and work  
>> there.
>> > >> When I log into my home server the next day, everything will  
>> be fine
>> > >> again. This is what I call the self-healing property of loncapa
>> > >> (whose
>> > >> existence Gerd denies ;-).
>> > >> My leaky memory tells me that Stuart and Stefan got some  
>> insight into
>> > >> the issue in November.
>> > >>
>> > >> Peter
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >
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