[Koha-devel] koha-zebra-daemon not starting

[Paul]

I've tried to keep this to a minimum, there is a 'conclusion' further down:

At 11:47 AM 8/20/2012 -0300, Tomas and Barry wrote:
>On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Paul <paul.a at aandc.org> wrote:
> > Koha 3.8.3 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server (new install, full upgrade)
>[snip]
> > But neither OPAC nor staff search functions are operational.
> >
> > The only anomaly that I've found so far is that
> > /etc/init.d/koha-zebra-daemon when run from the command line reports 
> failure
> > at line 73 (and does not create any error logs), but ps aux reports the
> > daemon as running (well, "S+" -- sleep forground.)
> >
> > Anyone got any thoughts please?
>
>You need to answer what method r u using for install.

Pls see my earlier email [Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:48:19 -0400]

>If using
>tarball, then you might be running the zebra daemon using de 'koha'
>user and 'koha' group. Do they exist? If this was the case, then this
>should create the missing dir:
>
>mkdir -p /var/lock/koha/zebradb/biblios/ ; chown -R koha:koha
>/var/lock/koha/zebradb/

Yes - tarball, but the dir was already (correctly) there:
paul at server:/var/lock/koha/zebradb$ ls -l
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 koha koha 40 Aug 20 11:33 authorities
drwxr-xr-x 2 koha koha 40 Aug 20 11:33 biblios

>Also (just in case):
>chown -R koha:koha /var/log/koha

Again, correctly there:
paul at server:/var/log$ ls -l | grep koha
drwxr-xr-x 2 koha koha 4096 Aug 19 11:19 koha

>Also, every time you run rebuild_zebra.pl you should do it like:
>
>su - koha -c "KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/koha-conf.xml
>PERL5LIB=/usr/share/koha/lib
>/usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -b -r -v -x"

What's the '-c'? (I don't think I've ever used this construct) and I don't 
think there's any difference, but I 'su koha' first, then 'cd 
usr/share/koha', then
KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/koha-conf.xml PERL5LIB=/usr/share/koha/lib 
./bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -a -r -v
and
KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/koha-conf.xml PERL5LIB=/usr/share/koha/lib 
./bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -b -r -v -x

and Barry Cannon wrote:
>Shouldn't running "zebrasrv -f /etc/koha/koha-conf.xml" (or whatever your 
>path is) as the index owner give you a good indication of what is going on 
>(it should at least get you pointed in the right direction as it should 
>dump out the error to console)

Interesting !!! or ;=} -- I tried that:

koha at server:/$ zebrasrv -f /etc/koha/koha-conf.xml
11:51:06-20/08 [log] zebra_start 2.0.44 
419ad759807269fdfa379799a051ed3a551c6541
11:51:06-20/08 [log] config /etc/koha/zebradb/zebra-biblios-dom.cfg
11:51:06-20/08 [log] Loaded filter module 
/usr/lib/idzebra-2.0/modules/mod-grs-xml.so
[snip more filters for zebra-biblios-dom and zebra-authorities-dom
11:51:06-20/08 [server] Adding dynamic listener on 
unix:/var/run/koha/zebradb/bibliosocket id=1
11:51:06-20/08 [server] Adding dynamic listener on 
unix:/var/run/koha/zebradb/authoritysocket id=2

at which point that terminal just hangs on an ongoing op, but shows that 
the sockets were not previously opened. So, re-indexing again:

for authorities:

25901................................
Records exported: 25933
====================
REINDEXING zebra
====================
skipping biblios
====================
CLEANING
====================

and for biblios:

37301...........................................................................37401....................
Records exported: 37417
====================
REINDEXING zebra
====================
12:04:12-20/08 zebraidx(2841) [warn] Unknown register type:
====================
CLEANING
====================

Which corresponds to the ps aux | grep koha during the re-indexing:

koha      2738  0.0  0.1 119084  4212 pts/2    S+   12:01   0:00 su - koha 
-c KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/koha-conf.xml PERL5LIB=/usr/share/koha/lib 
/usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -b -r -v -x
koha      2747 73.8  1.4 259028 56272 pts/2    S+   12:01   2:07 
/usr/bin/perl /usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -b -r -v -x
koha      2841 96.1  1.6 233556 64240 pts/2    Rl+  12:04   0:27 zebraidx 
-c /etc/koha/zebradb/zebra-biblios-dom.cfg -v none,fatal,warn -g marcxml -d 
biblios update /tmp/q2UPWJgDrk/biblio

and now we've got the search in OPAC and staff-admin finding the 37301 
biblios. And I still don't know what the "[warn] Unknown register type: " 
might mean. Some hangover from 3.6.1 to 3.8.3?

BUT ... the incremental cron (shows up in /var/log/syslog as working every 
1 minute), does _NOT_ add new records.

Conclusion: I'll keep going at this (half an hour here and there, it's our 
"tourist season", busiest time of the year) but somewhere, can't remember, 
there's something about Ubuntu 12.04 not renewing sockets, .LOKs, etc on 
reboot. Maybe I'm way off track, but it's the best avenue I have at the 
moment. Thoughts, please?

Best - Paul