Installing and upgrading help

I just updated my test site and experienced the same problem.

Top of page has Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$numsections in /moodle/test/htdocs/lib/adminlib.php on line 3381

and it kept showing the same "Include a topic section" setting

Goind direct to /admin shows

Error output, so disabling automatic redirect.

Before going back again to that setting. I tried disabling debugdisplay in database and now it hides the message but still won't go past that setting.

mdl_course_sections stores description, visibility and so on which should not be related to a problem with the Front page settings after upgrading.

It should rather be a value in mdl_config like

select * from mdl_config where name like "maxcategorydepth";
+-----+------------------+-------+
| id | name | value |
+-----+------------------+-------+
| 487 | maxcategorydepth | 1 |
+-----+------------------+-------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

but inserting the value (insert into mdl_config (name,value) values ("numsections",1);) doesn't resolve the problem since the value is either not properly read or read from somewhere else.

Ok, in 2.3 the setting is saved to mdl_course in the first row to the column numsections, but in my 2.4 install this column is missing (and two others) which seems to be intentional because there is a new table mdl_course_format_options.

on a clean install this looks like this,

+----+----------+--------+-----------+-------------+-------+
| id | courseid | format | sectionid | name | value |
+----+----------+--------+-----------+-------------+-------+
| 1 | 1 | site | 0 | numsections | 1 |
+----+----------+--------+-----------+-------------+-------+

but inserting this in the other install doesn't help either.

and I don't have time right now to step through the code

Christoph