March 2011 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

Items are not added in records
by Prawesh Shrestha 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

The items are not added in record. It is not displayed in any view - MARC, ITEM and others. But when items are searched for barcode printing, they are displayed without the features to add to the label. The check box and 'Add' don't appear. If 'Edit Items' is clicked the items are there. I checked the database, no items are written in 'Item' table. i tried the following command: sudo -u koha perl -I /usr/share/koha/lib /usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -b -v -w it output the following: . . . . 13:40:47-03/03 zebraidx(3905) [log] Records: 57000 i/u/d 10/56990/0 13:40:53-03/03 zebraidx(3905) [log] Records: 58000 i/u/d 19/57981/0 13:40:58-03/03 zebraidx(3905) [log] Records: 59000 i/u/d 28/58972/0 13:41:11-03/03 zebraidx(3905) [log] Merge 14.0% completed; 61 seconds remaining 13:41:21-03/03 zebraidx(3905) [log] Merge 40.3% completed; 29 seconds remaining 13:41:31-03/03 zebraidx(3905) [log] Merge 57.6% completed; 22 seconds remaining 13:41:41-03/03 zebraidx(3905) [log] Merge 59.6% completed; 27 seconds remaining 13:41:51-03/03 zebraidx(3905) [log] Merge 70.0% completed; 21 seconds remaining 13:42:01-03/03 zebraidx(3905) [log] Merge 76.0% completed; 18 seconds remaining 13:42:11-03/03 zebraidx(3905) [log] Merge 81.4% completed; 16 seconds remaining 13:42:21-03/03 zebraidx(3905) [log] Merge 87.3% completed; 11 seconds remaining 13:42:27-03/03 zebraidx(3905) [fatal] Bad block size -8 in pos=511075 zebraidx: isamb.c:549: open_block: Assertion `p->size >= 0' failed. ==================== CLEANING ==================== I checked for any changes in settings found no changes at all. Need your help. With regards, -- Prawesh Shrestha Project Engineer --------------------------------------------- Young Innovations Pvt. Ltd. GPO 8976 EPC 241 Pulchowk, Lalitpur, Nepal Tel: +977-01 5009282 http://yipl.com.np info[at]yipl[dot]com[dot]np ----------------------------------------------------

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koha - length of records - separation of items from biblios
by Linda Culberson 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

There is an "abandoned RFC" for "Stop copying item records to bib's MARC and MARCXML RFC" . Could someone tell me why this was abandoned, because I think having the item record data exists both in the items table and as MARC fields in the bib record is an a terrible shortcoming of Koha for academic and research libraries with large numbers of items for certain titles. Thank you. -- Linda Culberson lculber(a)mdah.state.ms.us Archives and Records Services Division Ms. Dept. of Archives & History P. O. Box 571 Jackson, MS 39205-0571 Telephone: 601/576-6873 Facsimile: 601/576-6824

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Subject tracings
by Jared Camins-Esakov 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

Hello. Can anyone think of any reason not to specify that subject tracings should match only complete subfields? For example, at the moment, if you are looking at a book about Religions (with a subject term "Religions") in the catalog of a library that does not use Koha's authority control, when you click on the subject tracing in the OPAC, you will be given a result set that contains every single record that has the word "Religions" anywhere in its subject. Including, for example, books with the subject "Christianity and other religions." If we make the query on the subject tracings su,complete-subfield: the only false positives will be items where the subject heading being searched is used for both a main entry and a subdivision, which still seems like a significant improvement over the current behavior. Thoughts? Regards, Jared -- Jared Camins-Esakov Freelance bibliographer, C & P Bibliography Services, LLC (phone) +1 (917) 727-3445 (e-mail) jcamins(a)cpbibliography.com (web) http://www.cpbibliography.com/

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Jenkins (formerly known as hudson, until Oracle lost their minds) hosting
by Chris Cormack 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

Hi All As you are probably all aware I have been running a hudson (now jenkins) instance on my linode server. It has been invaluable for catching errors and for helping to drive us towards better testing. The problem I now have is that my linode instance is RAM starved with both bugzilla and jenkins on it. So I am looking for volunteers to offer a machine to host jenkins on. Ideally debian (running squeeze) as the packages for jenkins work really well. I would need a login so I could set up and configure jenkins, and get it running all the tests again, but then id be happy to have sudo access revoked and let someone else maintain it. Jenkins is a pile of java, so it is RAM hungry. Conversely I could leave it running on my linode, but others could chip in to help afford the upgrade to the next level to get more ram available. Or any other suggestions? Chris PS the Jenkins story is an interesting one, and one worth reading about, a lot of how not to interact with a free software community lessons to be learnt there.

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