Messages écrits par Alain Raap

Moodle in English -> Installing and upgrading help -> Upgrade to Moodle 3.9.1+ -> Re: Upgrade to Moodle 3.9.1+

par Alain Raap,
Hi Ken,

Yes, it is true Redhat we use and they are conservative indeed, unfortunately we can't use a remi repo, I already found that as an alternative. So we'll have to wait until it is available in the Redhat rhscl repo.

I'm just testing the upgrade to see what's new and if I can find some impediments that might cause problems. MariaDB was one of them I already found out. H5P is integrated indeed in Moodle 3.9, and we're going to use it I believe.

We intend to migrate to Moodle 3.9.x and will also wait for a .2 or .3 release. I assume the most bugs will be solved then.

We did offload the cron to the database server, but that was because we used NFS for our moodledata. We're running on a new stack now without NFS and the cron is running fine now for the automated course backups. And we're using Redhat Satellite and Ansible Tower now, an improvement for our server maintenance tasks. Ansible is really fun with playbooks that are written easily and can ben run with Ansible Tower. Ansible Tower can also run schemas for maintenance tasks, like reboots or backup processes
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Moodle in English -> Installing and upgrading help -> Upgrade to Moodle 3.9.1+

par Alain Raap,

I am researching upgrading from Moodle 3.5.x to Moodle 3.9.1+
I found out I have to upgrade our MariaDB version, also the Kaltura plugins for our videoservers. This works fine on a lab environment where I installed the new version of Moodle (3.9.1+). Which version of PHP is recommended for this Moodle version?
PHP 7.2 is the (lowest) version that is recommended by Moodle, but this version is EOL 30 Nov this year. Is PHP7.4 a good alternative? For Redhat PHP7.3 is the highest version that I can install,  but PHP 7.4 is an LTS version (see https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php).

Where can I find some more information here for Moodle admins about the new Moodle 3.9 version and how to tweak and configure this version for optimal performance? I believe a lot has changed this version, so I'm curious about the experiences of other Moodle system admins here.

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Moodle in English -> Hardware and performance -> Automated backups - Cannot obtain task lock -> Re: Automated backups - Cannot obtain task lock

par Alain Raap,
Is cron running without problems now? And your automated backup task?

I also had the lock problem some time ago and that was because several cron processes
of Moodle hanged (state ‘D’) . After I killed these processes, the problem was solved.
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Moodle in English -> Hardware and performance -> Automated backups - Cannot obtain task lock -> Re: Automated backups - Cannot obtain task lock

par Alain Raap,

Hi Antonio, just a tip to see what's happening with Redis, start 'redis-cli MONITOR' and you can see what's happening inside Redis.
Another issue I had with the automated backup when it was already running, I got the same error (RUNNING). My solution, I truncated the mdl_backup_controllers table (a tip I saw in the backup forum). 

Have you also checked the cron log of your Linux system? There you can see if your scheduled jobs are running as expected.

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