Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] best distro for no hassle install

2009-03-02 Thread John Fink
Yeah, seconding Debian. It's the distro that all the development happens on. jf On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Job D R Borges j...@nupelia.uem.br wrote: debian 2009/3/2 Raymond Norton ad...@lctn.org bump Raymond Norton wrote: I have to blow away my Ubuntu Hardy install I have on one

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen 1.4.0.2 is available

2009-02-10 Thread John Fink
Hot dog! Just in time for my install tomorrow. Thanks Dan and everybody! jf On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Dan Scott deni...@gmail.com wrote: After a lengthy period of release candidates through Fall 2008 and quiet 1.4.0.0 and 1.4.0.1 releases in January 2009, the Evergreen development

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] New installation, start_c fails

2009-01-21 Thread John Fink
D'oh, forgot to put where you can get it! It's here: http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/browser/trunk/Open-ILS/src/support-scripts/settings-tester.pl jf On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:42 PM, John Fink john.f...@gmail.com wrote: David, Have you run the settings_tester.pl script? That often catches

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] problems running the import demo on my own data

2009-01-19 Thread John Fink
#converting_marc_records_to_evergreen_bre_json_format that addresses exactly this problem (well, recognizes the problem, but doesn't offer a straightforward fix). What tool did you use to convert the records to MARCXML format? Dan 2009/1/19 John Fink john.f...@gmail.com: Hey folks, I'm trying

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] problems running the import demo on my own data

2009-01-19 Thread John Fink
Never mind, at least re: this step in the import holdings process. I'm using a standard MARC file and the bre conversion process appears to be going okay. jf On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:52 PM, John Fink john.f...@gmail.com wrote: Hey folks, I'm trying to run through the import demo stuff

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] import_demo's parse_holdings.pl problems

2009-01-19 Thread John Fink
Hey folks, Continuing trying to get my own institutions holdings in, I get the following goofiness when trying to run parse_holdings.pl: lots of mentions of Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at parse_holdings-mac.pl line 93. and Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] more fun with import_demo

2009-01-14 Thread John Fink
Hey folks, Still wrestling with the import_demo package and the example holding -- on Dan Scott's advice, I grabbed the trunk version of import_demo from svn and tried running it against my instance (Evergreen 1.4RC1, OpenSRF 1.0, postgres 8.2). I get the following output from running

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] nevermind: re import_demo

2009-01-14 Thread John Fink
Hey folks, Judicious removal of the deprecated db_port flag resulted in everything going ahead nicely, after Dan knocked some sense into me by letting me know that the import demo should be run on the database server directly. As always, Dan saves the day. Recommended changes to import_demo

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] problems running the import holdings demo

2008-11-20 Thread John Fink
Yup, that did it. Thanks Dan!!! jf On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Dan Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/11/20 John Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey folks, When trying to run the import holdings demo from the download page, I get the following error when loading pg_loader-output.sql

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] what is the latest version of Evergreen

2008-10-21 Thread John Fink
Hello Vijay, The latest stable version of Evergreen is 1.2.3.1 ( http://open-ils.org/downloads.php). 1.4 will be the next stable version, and you see a lot of mentions about it likely because it's very close to release. If you're feeling adventurous, you can download 1.4 RC1 (Release Candidate)

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Self check units with open ils?

2008-07-30 Thread John Fink
Hello David, I think BC Pines uses Sentry machines; we're planning on using 3M machines ourselves here at McMaster, and I think PINES uses 3M. As I understand it, any machine that speaks SIP2 -- and most of them should -- should work out okay. jf On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:25 AM, David Coulter

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Doing a new install of Evergreen

2008-07-17 Thread John Fink
It's been a while since I did a clean install from bare metal, and I did it on Debian, but I remember the Makefile saving *a lot a lot a lot* of time -- the proper .debs are grabbed, and what's not apt-gettable is downloaded and built. So unless you have a compelling reason not to use the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Staff client self-check/express-check mode

2008-07-10 Thread John Fink
July 2008 3:36 John Fink wrote: I'm rallly interested in this -- we've got some self check stations now but they're pretty expensive. One item though -- how does this work with a thumper? Or is there some other method used to desensitize? Hey John, This is probably a dumb question

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] upgrading from 1.2.2.0 to 1.2.2.1

2008-07-04 Thread John Fink
Hey folks, Any upgrade readmes for 1.2.2.0 to 1.2.2.1? I don't see 'em on the http://open-ils.org/downloads.php page, unless I'm completely missing something. jf -- http://libgrunt.blogspot.com -- library culture and technology.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] User permissions error

2008-05-16 Thread John Fink
Robert, What version of Evergreen are you running? I seemed to get a *lot* of this back before 1.2.2.0. jf On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I may have hosed up my catalogers user group. I was trying to give them permissions to register patrons and now

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] SIP2 in Evergreen

2008-05-12 Thread John Fink
Hey folks, We're in the midst of retooling one of our libraries, and we're going to put a self-check machine in it. What self-check machines do the production sites (PINES/Sitka whomever else) use? Is any machine that is SIP2 compliant going to be okay generally? jf --

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] problems with 1.2.1.4-1.2.2.0 postgres upgrade script

2008-05-09 Thread John Fink
Hey folks, In the midst of trying to upgrade from 1.2.1.4 to 1.2.2.0, and following the instructions here: http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=upgrading:1.2.1_to_1.2.2; the postgres upgrade script yields the following unhappiness: BEGIN SELECT INSERT 0 75369

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] problems with 1.2.1.4-1.2.2.0 postgres upgrade script

2008-05-09 Thread John Fink
Hey presto! It works. Thanks Dan and Mike! jf On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Dan Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/5/9 John Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey folks, In the midst of trying to upgrade from 1.2.1.4 to 1.2.2.0, and following the instructions here: http://open-ils.org

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] EG client login error

2008-04-28 Thread John Fink
Has Dan Scott's settings tester been brought up yet? Invaluable when trying to figure out what the heck is wrong with an EG install. http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/browser/trunk/Open-ILS/src/support-scripts/settings-tester.pl jf On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Dan Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] connecting outside of LAN

2008-04-24 Thread John Fink
I just tried it through tor, and I got there okay. I think if I'm able to connect through tor, it's accessible. :) jf On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:27 PM, David Fiander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert, I'm on campus at the University of Western Ontario, and I'm having no problems connecting

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] testing issues after installation

2008-04-18 Thread John Fink
was *perfectly* well behaved. No problems with it whatsoever. :) Thanks to Robert for doing most of the heavy lifting and providing a great learning experience for me. jf On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Robert Soulliere [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Fink from McMaster helped fix our problem so

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Installing a Evergreen System

2008-04-16 Thread John Fink
Ryan, The Evergreen developers use Debian, and that's what most people use as well. It's definitely the most supported and understood. You can find instructions on how to install on a Debian machine on the Evergreen wiki, here: http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=server_installation Good

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] big wads of RAM

2008-03-19 Thread John Fink
21 352 0 0 100 0 0 0 35548 53076 300768 78673200 0 08 351 0 0 100 0 0 0 35548 53076 300768 78673200 0 0 14 359 0 0 100 0 Good luck! Reuben John Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/19/2008 11:37 AM Hey folks, I'm in the midst

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Re: postgres choking on my giant pile o' bibs

2008-02-22 Thread John Fink
Dan Scott made a good point here -- I should point out that the machine I'm running this on has 1GB of RAM. jf On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 9:14 AM, John Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, this isn't really Evergreen specific, admittedly, but: My bib load converted okay, I stopped Evergreen

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Re: postgres choking on my giant pile o' bibs

2008-02-22 Thread John Fink
PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:18 AM, John Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Scott made a good point here -- I should point out that the machine I'm running this on has 1GB of RAM. Dan has probably suggested this, but if you're willing to risk an incomplete (and unusable) data load

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Re: pg_loader getting killed

2008-02-21 Thread John Fink
pg_loader- output.mtfe.sql pg_loader-output.mfr.sql pg_loader-output.msefe.sql pg_loader-output.sql So which one should I load? Or am I supposed to load all of them? If so, does it matter what order I load them in? jf On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:24 AM, John Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh man, I

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Patron loads at CODE4LIB

2008-02-21 Thread John Fink
Code4Lib hasn't started yet -- it's next week. :) jf On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Grant Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dan and all, How's code4lib? The pre-con looks useful! Be cool to be there. Anybody recording? I'm particularly interested in bibrecord loading and batch

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Re: pg_loader getting killed

2008-02-20 Thread John Fink
Oh, and this is Evergreen 1.2.1.0, sorry for not stating that earlier. jf On Feb 20, 2008 9:18 AM, John Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey folks, I've tried a couple of times unsuccessfully to run pg_loader on what is admittedly a vastly huge (ls shows me filesize 17077683247) ingest file

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Installing Evergreen using debian_etch_x86 instructions - Step 7

2008-02-19 Thread John Fink
Hello Jean, A fair chunk of the Evergreen heavy lifters are not as accessible this week as they usually are, so don't despair if you don't get a reply to your problem this evening. I know what the problem is, but can't give you specific instructions to address as I'm typing this on an

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen installation problems

2008-02-14 Thread John Fink
I've used Debian 4.0r2 install discs for all my EG installs. I think it's a bit out of date, but apt-get solves that nicely. You can get Debian CD images from here: http://www.debian.org/CD/ jf On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:20 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, Which version of Debian do you

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] .deb packages for opensrf/evergreen?

2008-02-14 Thread John Fink
Is there any earth shattering reason preventing folks from making .debs for opensrf and Evergreen? I'm investigating trying to roll together a Live CD, and apparently it's a lot easier to do that if extra software is in deb format. jf -- http://libgrunt.blogspot.com -- library culture and

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Proposal: Public logs for the OpenILS-Evergreen IRC channel

2008-02-07 Thread John Fink
Could there be some mechanism added in to take things off the record? Not that I personally would ever expect to use it, but it would be nice to have a command to opt-out if we're, uh, expressing colourful opinions. jf On Feb 7, 2008 10:09 AM, Dan Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks: Up

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] distributed perl?

2008-02-07 Thread John Fink
This isn't really an Evergreen specific question, but it does involve Evergreen, so. I'm in the midst of processing a giant pack of bibs (I think about two and a half million) via the marc2bre/direct_ingest/pg_loader tango delineated here:

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] changes to Debian Makefile.install

2008-02-06 Thread John Fink
I get the following output from the command sudo ./evergreen_chroot.sh -c evergreen -v etch -i Maybe something screwy with my path? I'm running this as a normal user, full sudo privs for that user, on a box that has nothing except ssh and schroot installed. jf [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/jas-eg$

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] changes to Debian Makefile.install

2008-02-05 Thread John Fink
Hey folks, Installing yet again on a virgin Debian etch system. Bill Erickson's otherwise completely awesome Makefile.install seems to be missing three postgresql-8.1 related Debian packages, so here's a diff for it. jf --- Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1 By making a contribution to

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Debian install instructions: plpgsql barf

2008-02-05 Thread John Fink
Hey folks, Following along (and editing some of) the Dokuwki instructions at http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=installing_evergreen_1.2_on_debian_etch_x86_32-bit, I get the following errors when doing a make install for Evergreen-ILS-1.2.1.2. I've installed the Debian etch

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] specs for patron record import?

2008-01-23 Thread John Fink
Hey folks, I've got a sample of real patron data such as we'd use to import into Horizon. I'm going to try to massage it into the JSON format needed for import by Evergreen. Problem is, I'm not sure what that format exactly is. Does anyone have any pointers for me? jf --

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] SPAM: New en-CA/lang.dtd

2007-10-29 Thread John Fink
Thank *you*! Regarding the default province of Ontario, I figure I might catch some political grief setting it to Ontario, but eh. Not like it can't be edited. jf On 10/29/07, Mike Rylander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/07, John Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Newly created en-CA

Re: TR: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Re:RE: Ejabberd and Ubuntu

2007-10-19 Thread John Fink
Pierre, I have successfully installed 1.2RC2 (and, provided everything is ship shape, 1.2 stable this afternoon) on Ubuntu Server 7.04. I hit some snags that were things I did wrong, but the two Ubuntu instruction sheets work okay. jf On 10/19/07, Roberge, Pierre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Gender Question

2007-10-05 Thread John Fink
You ran into that question on *this* list? jf On 10/5/07, Deb Bergeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran across a posting the other day suggesting that women interested in open-source solutions use OSS solutions developed by women. Ok, I admit I'm naive here--is there a gender gap in OSS

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] problem logging in as admin

2007-10-04 Thread John Fink
, Bill Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/2/07, Mike Rylander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/2/07, John Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's something tasty from gateway.log. Let me know if you want a look at any of the others. snip the exception That just means

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] problem logging in as admin

2007-10-04 Thread John Fink
extra sure that every perl needs to be Pg? :) jf On 10/4/07, Dan Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 04/10/2007, Dan Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 04/10/2007, John Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, stopped, cleared logs, restarted with loglevel 5 in opensrf_core.xml. This is *probably

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] problem logging in as admin

2007-10-04 Thread John Fink
morning, and I'm sure it will work swimmingly. jf On 10/4/07, Dan Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 04/10/2007, John Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh. Okay, I did this (changing every instance of languageperl/language, and now really *nothing* works. No cstore or storage in ps wax. Starting

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] problem logging in as admin

2007-10-04 Thread John Fink
Actually, no, I changed every instance of string languageperl/language to languagePg/language. I wish I could blame this on lack of sleep, but I think it's just sheer boneheadedness that's the culprit. I will fix and report back. jf On 10/4/07, Jason Etheridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] problem logging in as admin

2007-10-01 Thread John Fink
Hey folks, I get a hung browser/staff client when trying to log in as admin on Evergreen 1.2.0RC2. The browser will hang for about a minute, and this is what happens in osrfsys.log. Is it possible my jabber server is somewhat busted? open-ils.auth 2007-10-01 06:26:47

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] problem logging in as admin

2007-10-01 Thread John Fink
. If you need a hand after these, please contact the list again and one of us will try to help. Sincerely Yours, --Don John Fink wrote: Hey folks, I get a hung browser/staff client when trying to log in as admin on Evergreen 1.2.0RC2. The browser will hang for about a minute

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] autogen.sh barfing on opac_visible?

2007-09-20 Thread John Fink
to have a functioning, albeit empty of any data, catalog. Hot dog! Thanks much to Dans et. al. jf On 9/19/07, John Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I was planning on just making sure the postgres stuff was fqdn, and leaving the rest alone unless I have a compelling reason not to. :) jf

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] autogen.sh barfing on opac_visible?

2007-09-18 Thread John Fink
Well hmmm. Okay. I'll give it a go, thanks a lot! jf On 9/18/07, Dan Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/09/2007, John Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey folks, My logs and opensrf*.xml files are zipped up. Thanks a pile for looking. jf I think the most important part

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] autogen.sh barfing on opac_visible?

2007-09-14 Thread John Fink
on autogen.sh. Dang. jf On 9/14/07, Bill Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/14/07, John Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/9/07, Dan Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm. There are a few possibilities that come to mind, if that's the case: * libdbdpgsql.so might

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] autogen.sh barfing on opac_visible?

2007-09-07 Thread John Fink
On 8/31/07, Dan Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 31/08/2007, John Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey folks, I'm so close I can taste victory, I tell you. XML massaged and in proper order (afaik), ejabberd talks to everyone, installs went just fine too. But here's my problem