[Building Sakai] Problems with jdk 1.7.0_71 and assignments

[John Hall]

OK, I've created a jira and put all my (excessive) additional logging and
some more details there:
https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-28022

Thanks,
John

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com>
wrote:

> What method are you seeing this in (for the debug statements)? Can you
> attach the patch where you put in this debugging to a jira? I haven't
> upgraded to _71 yet but not sure how this could happen either.
>
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:03 PM, John Hall <hall at udel.edu> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>> > --
>>> >
>>> > John F. Hall
>>> > Project Leader I, IT-Web Development
>>> > University of Delaware
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>> University of Delaware
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John F. Hall
Project Leader I, IT-Web Development
University of Delaware
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