[Koha] My Zebra keeps dying
Hi, Sounds like a sad problem I know but on our Koha test server (16.05) Zebra keeps dying. Since Zebra affects the catalog search, the problem is you type something in the search field and its "No result found" If you perform a koha-restart-zebra instance then the search is back up and running again. This wouldn't be a problem if it occurred rarely but it seems to happen 2 or 3 times a week. How can I stop this from happening ? Regards, Ian -- Dr. Ian Pratt B.Eng Ph.D C.Eng MIET MIEEE Director - ZigZagee Ltd. Email: i.pr...@zigzagee.com Landline: + 44 (0) 1509 276251 Mobile: + 44 (0) 7796331815 Web: www.zigzagee.com ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
[Koha] Koha catalogue search not working
Hi, I have attempted to perform a koha-rebuild zebra -f -a -b -v $Instance in order to solve a search not working problem. The result is shown below. The search still doesn't work but I am not sure if this is an indexing issue or is related to an issue I have seen on the MARC bibliographic framework test following a bit of trawling through the Koha issue list when I found my problem to be very similar to this one: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Koha-reindex-with-Zebra-doesn-t-work-td5642993.html I also experience the same MARC test errors. Unfortunately that thread seems to recommend a reinstallation which I would prefer to avoid since I am pretty sure the UNIMARC flavour was chosen throughout my original installation. Regards, Ian ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Search not working
Katrin, This was my problem. Search wasn't working because there was some confusion between UNIMARC & MARC21 during the installation. The option to choose the flavour is presented with the koha-create $instance & koha 1st time web installation. Regards, Ian On 19/02/2017 22:08, Katrin wrote: Hi Vanda, when using UNIMARC you will have to choose it in 2 places, maybe one was missed? Before the instance is created, you need to tell Koha that it will be using UNIMARC. You can do so by changing ZEBRA_MARC_FORMAT="marc21" in /etc/koha/koha-sites.conf to "unimarc". This will affect the indexing configuration and can be the cause of why your search might not work, when the records itself look correct. Then, when running the web installer, you also need to make sure UNIMARC is selected there. This will affect which cataloguing frameworks (MARC field and subfield definitions) are installed. Hope this helps, Katrin On 17.02.2017 13:19, vanda koha wrote: Hello Ian, We are still unable to solve our problem. We have done everything we were told to do, including what you mention in your message. Unfortunately nothing worked. And yes, we chose UNIMARC when the package installation was performed. My computer collegues say that we also have some references to MARC21 in the the koha-conf.xml file and apparently it is supposed to be that way. Still loking for an answer... Regrads Vanda 2017-02-16 19:13 GMT+00:00 i.pr...@zigzagee.com <i.pr...@zigzagee.com>: Vanda, Just out of interest, did you choose UNIMARC when the package installation was performed ? I did and I'm facing the same search problems as you. I note the koha-conf.xml file seems to have a lot of MARC21 references. Not sure if this needs to change to UNIMARC. This was just the template file that was generated through the installation. I tried the koha-rebuild-zebra -f -a -b -v $instance approach recommended but that didn't fix the search problems. if you want to know where it is just use >which koha-rebuild-zebra Regards, Ian -- Dr. Ian Pratt B.Eng Ph.D C.Eng MIET MIEEE Director - ZigZagee Ltd. Email: i.pr...@zigzagee.com Landline: + 44 (0) 1509 276251 Mobile: + 44 (0) 7796331815 Web: www.zigzagee.com ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Dr. Ian Pratt B.Eng Ph.D C.Eng MIET MIEEE Director - ZigZagee Ltd. Email: i.pr...@zigzagee.com Landline: + 44 (0) 1509 276251 Mobile: + 44 (0) 7796331815 Web: www.zigzagee.com ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
[Koha] Search not working
Vanda, Just out of interest, did you choose UNIMARC when the package installation was performed ? I did and I'm facing the same search problems as you. I note the koha-conf.xml file seems to have a lot of MARC21 references. Not sure if this needs to change to UNIMARC. This was just the template file that was generated through the installation. I tried the koha-rebuild-zebra -f -a -b -v $instance approach recommended but that didn't fix the search problems. if you want to know where it is just use >which koha-rebuild-zebra Regards, Ian -- Dr. Ian Pratt B.Eng Ph.D C.Eng MIET MIEEE Director - ZigZagee Ltd. Email: i.pr...@zigzagee.com Landline: + 44 (0) 1509 276251 Mobile: + 44 (0) 7796331815 Web: www.zigzagee.com ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
[Koha] Koha catalogue search
Hi, I have installed Koha on Debian (yay!). Version 16.05.06.000. I want to use UNIMARC format. I want to use the setup as a test server for SIP2. This seems to work with ports 6001 & 8023 (raw & telnet) responding. I can add books to the test server. I determined this by looking at Tools->Inventory and I can see my 4 sample book entries. However, I would expect to find these books if I typed the title into the catalog search. I get the "No results" response which seems quite a common problem with Koha setups. From the Wiki it seems like you can use yaz-client to see if Zebra is not working properly (rebuilding Zebra seems to be the standard response to the "No result" problem.) However, when I try the yaz-client approach it sort of works, I get the "Connection established by v3 target" response to the command: $ *yaz-client -c /etc/koha/zebradb/ccl.properties unix:/var/run/koha/$instance/bibliosocket* However, when I try to search for the books using: *Z> **base biblios* *Z> *f Finance** ** ** I get "Search was a success" but the number of hits is 0 when I would have expected it to find the book in the Catalog. The Wiki on this seems to suggest yaz-client is the fall back when the Koha search front end returns "No results". But what do you do when yaz-client returns no results also ? If I sound like a Koha novice that is because I am a Koha novice, I just want to use it as a test tool for developing self-service kiosk software. Regards, Ian -- Dr. Ian Pratt B.Eng Ph.D C.Eng MIET MIEEE Director - ZigZagee Ltd. Email: i.pr...@zigzagee.com Landline: + 44 (0) 1509 276251 Mobile: + 44 (0) 7796331815 Web: www.zigzagee.com ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
