Moodle 1.7.1 Upgrade Problems

Moodle 1.7.1 Upgrade Problems

by John Szkudlapski -
Number of replies: 3

Hi All,

will just give you an overview of the problems I faced when upgrading from Moodle 1.6.4 to 1.7.1

a) Course Creator - are now enrolled on every course and have pretty much Admin rights across the entire Moodle installation (including the front page). I have moved them down to Teacher within the Roles - but i think i will have to add them back into their courses.

b) Student Enrollment - any course that was assigned to a student via "flat file" has not been kept (nearly 3000 students lost all of their courses). I have had to re-apply the flat file enrollment file - strange thing is, courses I added students to manually not via Flat File (such as Student Information) they retained their enrollment.

c) Login Screen - the login screen now shows \ / either side of Quotation Marks, if i remove them, at least one pair shows up when the page refreshes.

It also shows the same \ after a directory prompt

see http://vle.bsfc.ac.uk/moodle/login/index.php

I will continue to run 1.7.1 until the end of today and may have to roll back to 1.6.4 if we still receive complaints from our users.

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Re: Moodle 1.7.1 Upgrade Problems

by John Szkudlapski -

I have also just found that any course with "do not allow guest access" the administrator cannot go in and change the permissions / assign roles.

Ive bit the bullet and returned to 1.6.4

Basically it all ended up as the Course Enrollments dissapeared, Admin could not alter "non guest access courses", without enabling "allow guests in" which we dont want, and Users were given privilages that they should not of been.

I think we will stay on 1.6.4 for a while, until it becomes absolutly necessary to upgrade.

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Re: Moodle 1.7.1 Upgrade Problems

by Robert Brenstein -
John, you should create bug tracker entries for items b, c, and d, so they are properly documented.

The item a is a known problem, I believe fixed in 1.8. It may actually be a good idea for you to try doing the same in 1.8, which just turned beta, to see whether these problems were fixed there.
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Re: Moodle 1.7.1 Upgrade Problems

by John Szkudlapski -

I am just in the process of cloning our Moodle Server onto its backup server, then I will try the upgrade again and fully document the upgrade process.

We currently have no staff/students in the college at the minute so now is the ideal time to do it.

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