[Deploying Sakai] Possible to downgrade Sakai from 2.6.1 backto 2.5.x?

[Seth Theriault]

[cross-posting to sakai-dev]

If you are using MySQL, it is very possible that using the 
KNL-263 patch in conjunction with the lowercasing of EIDs will 
work.

Seth


Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote:

> Hi Alan & Aaron,
> 
> Thank you so much for your response. Seems we could not roll back
> easily because people already worked a lot on the current 2.6.x
> However, we found a related kernel bug
> (http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-263). We have mixed-cased eid
> as well. Let us try to use the patch suggested in that bug report +
> force lower case all eid. Will update you guys asap.
> 
> Chinh
> 
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Berg, Alan <A.M.Berg at uva.nl> wrote:
> > Hi Nguyen Tam Chinh,
> >
> > I would welcome direct contact. It is in the central QA's best interest to
> > understand the issue.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > Alan Berg
> > Interim QA Director - The Sakai Foundation
> >
> > Senior Developer / Quality Assurance
> > Group Education and Research Services
> > Central Computer Services
> > University of Amsterdam
> >
> > http://home.uva.nl/a.m.berg
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: production-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org on behalf of Aaron Zeckoski
> > Sent: Sat 3/20/2010 8:26
> > To: Nguyen Tam Chinh
> > Cc: production at collab.sakaiproject.org
> > Subject: Re: [Deploying Sakai] Possible to downgrade Sakai from 2.6.1 backto
> > 2.5.x?
> >
> > You would need to restore the DB from backup. There are no scripts to
> > reverse the changes that were made during a 2.5 -> 2.6 upgrade.
> >
> > I don't know of any outstanding issues in 2.6.2+ related to LDAP or
> > sessions. It might help if you can explain the issues you are having
> > in more detail and maybe provide some logs.
> >
> > -AZ
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Nguyen Tam Chinh <unixvn at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> We started to get quite a lot of troubles since upgrading to 2.6.1
> >> from 2.5.x few weeks ago. It became very unstable. For example,
> >> suddenly users lose all his tabs (sites) so he appeared just as a new
> >> user. We're authenticating via Novel LDAP, and something must be
> >> messed up in the ldap user mapping and the Sakai internal id.
> >> Is it possible to downgrade back to 2.5.x from 2.6.x? We had 2.5.x
> >> running for quite a long time without any problem at all.
> >>
> >> --
> >> With best regards,
> >> Chinh Nguyen
> >>
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> Chinh Nguyen
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