We had lots of problems with filter-media until we changed pdfbox to xpdf2text.
Sue Walker-Thornton Software Developer/Database Administrator NASA Langley Research Center|LITES Contract (757) 224-4074 -----Original Message----- From: Sean Carte [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 4:27 AM To: George Stanley Kozak Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Question about filter-media hanging On 10 December 2010 21:22, George Stanley Kozak <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > > > > I am running DSpace 1.6.2. Last week we batch loaded about 1500 PDF files > and this week I loaded about 2300 images (mostly Jpegs). I noticed today > that the thumbnails hadn't been generated by the filter-media program (which > runs nightly). When I went to look, I discovered several filter-media > programs running. It looks like the jobs were hanging up and then the next > night, a new one started up and that one got hung up, etc. > > > > I have tried running filter-media in verbose mode, but I am not seeing > anything in particular that is causing the hang up. No java errors.it just > seems to hang. > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I should next? > > > > George Kozak Have a look at the suggestions in this thread: http://old.nabble.com/-Dspace-tech--filter-media-hanging-td29158622.html#a29158622 Updating pdfbox worked for me. Sean -- Sean Carte esAL Library Systems Manager +27 72 898 8775 +27 31 373 2490 fax: 0866741254 http://esal.dut.ac.za/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide: Learn learn about native support for PL/SQL, new data types, scalar functions, improved concurrency, built-in packages, OCI, SQL*Plus, data movement tools, best practices and more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide: Learn learn about native support for PL/SQL, new data types, scalar functions, improved concurrency, built-in packages, OCI, SQL*Plus, data movement tools, best practices and more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech

