I was having problems with logins to our test environment when I upgraded from 3.5-3.6, so I did a fresh install via Git. It all went fine, but now I need to login again and what I'm seeing is a bunk of junk characters in the username input. It even appears as part of the field's value attribute. (see attached).
Anyone having this issue, or a solution?
Re: Moodle 3.6 - Junk characters in the Username field during login
Hi Alan,
Apologies if it is obvious, but how about using a different browser to check whether it is caused by browser auto-completion?
Re: Moodle 3.6 - Junk characters in the Username field during login
Hi Helen, thanks for the reply. It was amongst the first things I tried (just one of those routine troubleshooting steps!). I can't login with any account on any browser, really bizarre.
Re: Moodle 3.6 - Junk characters in the Username field during login
Do you mean that you can't log in even of you delete the characters?
Re: Moodle 3.6 - Junk characters in the Username field during login
No, users can still log in without problem but the junk characters just look odd to users.
Re: Moodle 3.6 - Junk characters in the Username field during login
Re: Moodle 3.6 - Junk characters in the Username field during login
It appears it was the theme that was causing the problem; specifically on older version of a Boost based theme(one we were playing with as a parent theme rather than a child to get to grips with the ins and outs of the theme). Once I got rid of it and installed our child theme, no problems occurred.
Re: Moodle 3.6 - Junk characters in the Username field during login
I have uninstalled Boost but the problem persists. Would you describe in details what I could do to replace the current parent theme with a child theme? I remembered before I installed 3.6.1, I have changed the character encoding from UTF-8 to UTF8mb4. Is this a possible reason for the junk characters?