[Dspace-tech] OS for DSpace

2007-02-07 Thread Steve Thomas
Hi. we've been funded for new hardware for our Digital Library (yay!) and I'm now being asked what Operating system is required. The suggestion is Redhat EL 4. I'm sure that will be fine, but (being a Solaris person) I'd like reassurance, so . Can anyone please confirm that RHEL4 is OK for

[Dspace-tech] Handle server stopped working

2007-02-28 Thread Steve Thomas
Hi. Our handle server has inexplicably stopped working -- we now get handle not found messages from hdl.handle.net. Since I haven't done anything to the config (I promise!) I'm at a loss as to what to do next. Can anyone offer me some clues? Also, we're using the default port 2461 for server

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2007-05-31 Thread Steve Thomas
Hi. I'm trying to re-build our indexes, and find that index-all is failing with this message: Exception in thread main java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space Any ideas as to a solution? (Was working OK until last night.) Thanks, Steve Stephen Thomas, Senior

[Dspace-tech] index-all out of memory error

2007-05-31 Thread Steve Thomas
Hi. I'm trying to re-build our indexes, and find that index-all is failing with this message: Exception in thread main java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space Any ideas as to a solution? (Was working OK until last night.) Thanks, Steve Stephen Thomas, Senior Systems Analyst, University

[Dspace-tech] Help needed with DBD::Pg

2007-06-03 Thread Steve Thomas
Hi. I'm wondering if anyone has installed the DBD::Pg perl module on RedHat? (RHEL) I'm having severe problems trying to get it to build. I have PostgreSQL 8.2.4 installed from a package. The DBD::Pg install requires pg_config from the development kit, so I've unpacked that and ran gmake to

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace on Sun SPARC

2007-06-20 Thread Steve Thomas
Mika, we have run DSpace here for a year now on Solaris 8 (SPARC E450) with no significant issues. Ironically, we're about to migrate to an HP running RHEL, but that was for performance reasons related to the hardware, and University purchasing policy. Between you and me, I've had more issues

Re: [Dspace-tech] Non-ASCII Unicode and searching in DSpace

2007-07-03 Thread Steve Thomas
that this email or any attachments are free of viruses. Virus scanning is recommended and is the responsibility of the recipient. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Thomas Sent: Monday, 2 July 2007 3:28 pm To: dspace-tech

[Dspace-tech] UTF-8 encoding in search mystery

2007-08-22 Thread Steve Thomas
Can anyone help with this? I’ve found that, since we moved from Solaris to Linux (RHEL), we are unable to search using words with non-ascii characters in them. E. g. the name “Mühlhäusler” in simple search returns no results. The URL produced by the search is

[Dspace-tech] Too many open files error

2007-12-19 Thread Steve Thomas
We're having a lot of trouble currently with tomcat crashing with a Too many open files error. This is happening roughly twice a day -- I am restarting tomcat every morning, and usually get a call around lunch time that it has crashed and need to restart again. Restart is quick and fixes the

Re: [Dspace-tech] Help! Unable to pg_restore, utterly confused

2008-01-23 Thread Steve Thomas
, can you post the pg_dump command and options you've used? -Mark On Jan 23, 2008, at 9:08 PM, Steve Thomas wrote: I need help! I'm using pg_dump to make a backup of our database, and ... sensibly, I think ... wanted to confirm that we could restore from this dump using pg_restore

[Dspace-tech] Need help urgently! Indexing fails following 1.4.2 upgrade

2008-03-16 Thread Steve Thomas
Hi. I need help! We upgraded from 1.3.2 to 1.4.2 last night. Everything worked well, and DSpace runs fine. I ran index-all after the upgrade and that worked too, no problem. But now, a subsequent index-all fails to build the search index (browse works fine). The search index build runs for a

[Dspace-tech] Tomcat error: Timeout waiting for idle object

2008-03-16 Thread Steve Thomas
More problems following the 1.4.2 upgrade: We're getting heaps of errors from tomcat, like this: 17/03/2008 13:05:14 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve invoke SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet mydspace threw exception java.util.NoSuchElementException: Timeout waiting for idle

Re: [Dspace-tech] Tomcat error: Timeout waiting for idle object

2008-03-16 Thread Steve Thomas
. Unfortunately, this has made no difference. :-( Steve Steve Thomas wrote: More problems following the 1.4.2 upgrade: We're getting heaps of errors from tomcat, like this: 17/03/2008 13:05:14 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve invoke SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet mydspace threw

Re: [Dspace-tech] Tomcat error: Timeout waiting for idle object : UPDATE

2008-03-18 Thread Steve Thomas
starting at 12:30pm and eventually tomcat required a restart an hour later. So ... problem not really solved, but DSpace is now as stable as it was on 1.3.2, so I guess we call that progress.:-) Steve Steve Thomas wrote: I found a thread on dspace-tech about this (typically unresolved

[Dspace-tech] Borked sequence in author browse

2008-06-29 Thread Steve Thomas
Hi. We're running 1.4.2. Our Author browse is producing an odd sequence of authors, e.g. Brown, Alfred Leonard Brown, Alice Brown, A. M. Brown, A. R. Brown-Augsburger, P. -- it looks very much like the sequence is ignoring punctuation (good) AND ignoring spaces (b. BAD). Has anyone else

[Dspace-tech] Configuring PostgreSQL to allow access by BIRT

2008-10-26 Thread Steve Thomas
Hi. Can anyone enlighten me as to how I configure postgresql to allow access to a BIRT client? (BIRT is an SQL reporting tool.) And also how to config BIRT at the client end? Cheers! Steve -- Stephen Thomas, Senior Systems Analyst, University of Adelaide Library UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE SA

[Dspace-tech] Using SQL to add a metadata field to records?

2008-11-13 Thread Steve Thomas
Hi. We have a need to add a new metadata field (a unique identifier) to many records in our DSpace (1.4.2) database. Basically, we will have a list of DOI-identifier pairs, and for each item matching the DOI, we'll want to add a new identifier field with the identifier value. Can anyone

[Dspace-tech] Bitstreams invisible after import

2009-07-30 Thread Steve Thomas
Hi. Having a problem here with importing a record with a number of mp3 bitstreams. (A music thesis.) Running DSpace 1.4.2, record is http://hdl.handle.net/2440/49474 I set up a directory tree as per docs to import the record -- done that many times with no problems with simple records.

[Dspace-tech] Error starting tomcat: Error occurred during initialization of VM

2009-08-16 Thread Steve Thomas
Hi. We're suddenly seeing this error when we restart tomcat: Error occurred during initialization of VM Could not reserve enough space for object heap I'm mystified, because we have made no server changes recently. Apache is running, postgresql is running, but tomcat is borked. Can anyone

[Dspace-tech] DSpace becomes unresponsive, and I'm out of ideas

2014-04-02 Thread Steve Thomas
We're having continuing performance problems with our DSpace server. We're running version 1.6.2 on RHEL 4, so, yeah, everything is old. But service has been reliable, mostly, until recently. The symptom is that DSpace will become unresponsive at the browser. Checking the server, we'll typically