A user ("imp") on IRC reported being unable to add patrons to a new installation of 3.00.01.005 because of the error "This patron does not exist." Of course that doesn't make any sense when one is trying to add a new patron. Their logs also showed: [Sun Mar 15 18:20:19 2009] [error] [client 172.16.1.164] [Sun Mar 15 18:20:19 2009] memberentry.pl: Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /mnt2/koha-install/intranet/cgi-bin/members/memberentry.pl line 139., referer: http://10.23.42.14:8080/cgi-bin/koha/members/memberentry.pl?op=add&categ... [Sun Mar 15 18:20:19 2009] [error] [client 172.16.1.164] [Sun Mar 15 18:20:19 2009] memberentry.pl: DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Column 'surname' cannot be null at /mnt2/koha-install/lib/C4/Members.pm line 768., referer: http://10.23.42.14:8080/cgi-bin/koha/members/memberentry.pl?op=add&categ... I have some problems with this patch introduced 8 days ago: http://git.koha.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=Koha;a=commit;h=239700d079ca6c33d3b... Maybe it is unrelated, but that patch includes unnecessary changes to memberentry.pl (all whitespace... on a stable release?) and an apparently unconditional warn statement in Members.pm. I suggest it should be reverted and the addition of new patrons retested via STAFF interface. The symptoms as reported would seem to affect all users trying to add patrons w/ the current stable codebase. --Joe