Can someone please help me understand what on earth has happened? Tarball Koha 3.8.5 on 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04.2 (sandbox, thank goodness, exact mirror of our production box opac.navalmarinearchive.com) Yesterday, to avoid downtime on the production box, I used the sandbox for a "manual" cleanup of the mirror db using cleanup_database.pl intending to dump the "cleaned" db back into production. Import, mail. sessions and logs went as expected, but: koha@hardy:/usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs$ ./cleanup_database.pl --zebraqueue -v Zebraqueue purge triggered for 30 days seemed to hang so I left it overnight, and this morning got: 131575 records were deleted. Done with zebraqueue purge. A fresh MySQL dump showed that this had worked (dump size down by more than 50%) But - OPAC was "down for maintenance" and logging into admin from a workstation gave me "Web installer Step 3 We are upgrading from Koha 3.08.05.000 to 3.08.10.000, you must update your database." So (maybe idiotically) I clicked the "update" and got: Updating database structure Update report : Upgrade to 3.08.06.000 (3.8.6 release) done Upgrade to 3.08.07.000 (3.8.7 release) done Upgrade to 3.08.08.000 (3.8.8 release) done Upgrade to 3.08.09.000 (3.8.9 release) done Upgrade to 3.08.10.000 (3.8.9 release) done Everything went OK, update done. Continue to log in to Koha Now, "About Koha" reports Koha version: 3.08.10.000 !!!!!!! There is a copy of koha-3.08.10.tar.gz at root on this box (I was thinking of experimenting, but never even got around to untarring it): paul@hardy:/$ find / -iname '*3.08.10*' /koha-3.08.10.tar.gz paul@hardy:/$ There appears to be nothing in syslog, but Koha has definitely "upgraded something" and koha-error_log shows a whole bunch of errors, starting with the requirement for db update: [Sun Apr 28 12:31:16 2013] [error] [client "me"] [Sun Apr 28 12:31:16 2013] search.pl: Database update needed, redirecting to Installer. Database is 3.0805000 and Koha is 3.0810000 at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Auth.pm line 593. and continuing with a whole bunch of "languages" along the lines of: [Sun Apr 28 12:31:17 2013] [error] [client "me"] [Sun Apr 28 12:31:17 2013] install.pl: Use of uninitialized value $current_language in string eq at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Languages.pm line 317. which probably relate just to the database structure. The log shows no trace of untarring koha-3.08.10.tar.gz and, quite frankly, given that all the log entries span 1 min. 44 secs, I just don't believe that the sandbox (a fairly slow, early 64-bit box) could have done a complete version upgrade. I've looked at the code in cleanup_database.pl (and search.pl), and can't see any obvious reason to "redirect to Installer." So -- what has happened? Can I dump the cleaned db back into production? What are the specific changes 3.8.5 to 3.8.10 that required "updating"? Before I go blundering around like a bull in a chinashop, I'd really appreciate some assistance. Thanks and best regards, Paul --- Maritime heritage and history, preservation and conservation, research and education through the written word and the arts. <http://NavalMarineArchive.com> and <http://UltraMarine.ca>