[Koha-bugs] [Bug 12454] Can't add new patron categories

[Eric Lease Morgan]

I too am not able to create new patron categories.

I have just finished installing Koha 3.16.00.000. I did this installation from source (koha-latest.tar.gz). During the Web-based configuration I got many mysterious errors saying something like “using passwords on the command line is dangerous”. Whatever.

After logging in to the admin interface as the super user, I was instructed to create a patron. I tried to create a patron, but I could not because there were no categories. I tried to create a staff category, but my results were the same as the original posting to this thread:

  ...the newly created category just doesn't show up.

I then tried to apply the patch, but my patch skills are limited. Patch kept complaining about hunks failing, etc. 

I then looked really hard at the patch and noticed the number of question marks was “diff”-erent:

  original: VALUES (?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?)" );
     patch: VALUES (?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?)" );

So I edited the source to add the questions mark. Still, newly created category just doesn't show up.

What am I doing wrong? Can you send me the patch file as well as the patch command to use it? 

— 
Eric Lease Morgan