[Building Sakai] Problems with jdk 1.7.0_71 and assignments

[John Hall]

We're running Oracle 11g on Solaris x86, and our Tomcats are 7.0.54.

I just tried a fresh 1.7.0_72 on our dev server and that had the issue as
well.  Going back to 65 again fixed it.

-John

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Kirschner, Beth <bkirschn at umich.edu> wrote:

> That's disturbing - we're about to upgrade to Java 1.7.0_71, so I'm
> curious if anyone else has seen this too. Even though it looks like it's
> not database related, I am curious what database you are using?
>
> - Beth
>
> On Oct 28, 2014, at 11:32 AM, John Hall <hall at udel.edu> wrote:
>
> > We've recently upgraded Java to 1.7.0_71 on out Sakai 2.9.3 instance and
> since then have experienced a strange problem with the assignment tool.
> >
> > For a very small number of submissions the assignment id is being
> corrupted at some point -- not apparently in the database since I've
> checked the problem submissions and assignments, including decoding the
> BASE64 XML and all assignment IDs look OK there.  In all the cases I've
> examined, just the first character of the UUID is changing at some point to
> a non-hexadecimal character (I've seen 'r','s',etc).
> >
> > For instance I added some logging, and can see that the assignment ID is
> correct at some point, but then gets changed:
> >
> > 2014-10-28 10:34:43,267 DEBUG ajp-bio-8019-exec-8
> org.sakaiproject.assignment.impl.BaseAssignmentService - Got
> assignmentId=17a46ae0-6ccc-45ce-b68f-00b39db78a52 from ref
> >
> > 2014-10-28 10:34:43,273 DEBUG ajp-bio-8019-exec-8
> org.sakaiproject.assignment.impl.BaseAssignmentService - calling
> submissionReference with assignmentId=s7a46ae0-6ccc-45ce-b68f-00b39db78a52
> >
> > The URLs for grading in the assignment list for grading have the
> incorrect assignmentId and cause an NPE at the point it tries to get a
> grade, since the assignment doesn't exist under that ID.   No further
> assignments are listed so Instructors are stuck not being able to grade
> further submissions.  I suspect something's going wrong in Velocity.
> >
> > I reproduced the problem on a dev server by copying the database over,
> and when I changed it back to Java 1.7.0_65 the problem went away.  All the
> assignmentids and grading links were correct in the GUI and no NPE.
> >
> > Has anyone else experienced this?  I'm trying to figure out if it's a
> general sakai problem, in which case I'll  put a Jira in, or something
> specific to our local deployment.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John Hall
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> >
> > John F. Hall
> > Project Leader I, IT-Web Development
> > University of Delaware
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John F. Hall
Project Leader I, IT-Web Development
University of Delaware
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