User Actions Log: not installing Module, after upgrade from 3.8.14

[rotech1]

Steps to reproduce the issue

upgrade to 3.9 RC

Expected result

User Actions log working

Actual result

Log page is accessible. But (after some actions by users both front and back end) I find no data in the log... Checked the Modules ( as per https://docs.joomla.org/Help38:Extensions_Module_Manager_Admin_Latestactions ) and no such module can be found in the modules list!

??? Bad docs, or bad upgrade??

Docs (https://docs.joomla.org/Special:MyLanguage/J3.x:User_Action_Logs )strongly imply that only the ONE "Action Log" plugin needs to be enabled to record system logs - and there is nothing in the docs requiring either of the others be enabled as prerequisite for it to function...

plugin "Action Log" is enabled, and the other two new 'action plugins' are not.
Disabled Action Log plugin, then re-enabled, and tested again. Still nothing...

System information (as much as possible)

Setting Value

PHP Built On Linux [redacted] 4.15.0-23-generic #25-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 23 18:02:16 UTC 2018 x86_64
Database Type mysql
Database Version 8.0.12
Database Collation utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci
Database Connection Collation utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci
PHP Version 7.2.10
Web Server Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS) PHP/7.2.10
WebServer to PHP Interface apache2handler
Joomla! Version Joomla! 3.9.0-rc Release Candidate [ Amani ] 10-October-2018 12:30 GMT
Joomla! Platform Version Joomla Platform 13.1.0 Stable [ Curiosity ] 24-Apr-2013 00:00 GMT
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.67 Safari/537.36

Additional comments

I'm going to disable the plugin now...
I don't think this would ever be enabled on our high-volume site, anyway (too much overhead wasted on a feature that we do not need...)

[Quy]

See #22577

the modules and plugins related to privacy and actionlogs may have to be enabled in Manage

[rotech1]

OK, so somebody will update the documentation accordingly then?

[mbabker]

The 3.9.0-2018-05-20.sql and 3.9.0-2018-06-12.sql change deltas add the modules but don't enable them, counter to joomla.sql which does have them enabled.

I don't remember if there was a reason or if it's an oversight, but I'd suggest the extensions should be enabled in those deltas so that the modules are easily found when adding them to existing sites and the extra steps of finding them in the extension manager and enabling them aren't necessary.

[infograf768]

We are quite a few who learned that the hard way...
Patch here #22691