Outage category: Blackboard
Location: All Campuses
Status: Closed
Resolved Alert:
Initial Symptoms
Students contacted Data Center, they were unable to log into Blackboard.
Root Cause Analysis
Cause
The issue was found to be a bug in Learn whereby if the SAML building block update fails, it is not retried and is left in a corrupt state.
Resolution
This bug has been resolved in release 3900.2 that will be applied to GMU’s production environment on 12/3/20. The fix is that Learn upgrades will retry the building block update if it is in a corrupt state.
Prevention
This is a Learn bug that was fixed.