[Koha-devel] Can't search after loading a 3.8 sql dump into 3.10

[Magnus Enger]

I have an instance running 3.8.7 off the official packages. I take the
.sql.gz file produced by the backup-script in that installation and
move it to another server where I have installed 3.10, again from the
official packages. Then I create a new 3.10 instance on the new server
with the same name as the instance on the old server ("esme"), gunzip
the sql dump file and load it into the new installation, with this:

sudo koha-mysql myinstance < dump.sql

Then I do:

sudo koha-upgrade-schema esme
sudo koha-rebuild-zebra -f esme

Everything looks good (the output from koha-upgrade-schema is here:
http://paste.koha-community.org/304), but I can't search in the new
installation. I get a search results page that has:

1. "You did not specify any search criteria." in the title of the page

2. "Error: Can't call method "raw" on an undefined value at
/usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Search.pm line 461." in the body of the page.

The only thing that happens in /var/log/koha/esme/opac-error.log is
this, which seems benign:

[Mon Dec 10 13:29:35 2012] [error] [client x.x.x.x] [Mon Dec 10
13:29:35 2012] opac-search.pl: Use of uninitialized value $error in
concatenation (.) or string at
/usr/share/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac/opac-search.pl line 509., referer:
http://esme.testing.bibkat.no/cgi-bin/koha/opac-main.pl

If I create another instance on the new server, run through the web
installer manually then export the records from the old server and
stage/import them into the new server then searching works just fine
(after I run koha-rebuild-zebra -f).

As far as I can tell, the contents of
/etc/koha/sites/esme/zebra-biblios.cfg are identical for the two
instances.

Reindexing looks like this:

$ sudo koha-rebuild-zebra -f -v esme
Zebra configuration information
================================
Zebra biblio directory      = /var/lib/koha/esme/biblios
Zebra authorities directory = /var/lib/koha/esme/authorities
Koha directory              = /usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin
BIBLIONUMBER in :     999$c
BIBLIOITEMNUMBER in : 999$d
================================
skipping authorities
====================
exporting biblio
====================
101..................................................................................................
Records exported: 150
====================
REINDEXING zebra
====================
====================
CLEANING
====================
Zebra configuration information
================================
Zebra biblio directory      = /var/lib/koha/esme/biblios
Zebra authorities directory = /var/lib/koha/esme/authorities
Koha directory              = /usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin
BIBLIONUMBER in :     999$c
BIBLIOITEMNUMBER in : 999$d
================================
====================
exporting authority
====================

Records exported: 0
====================
REINDEXING zebra
====================
skipping biblios
====================
CLEANING
====================


Anyone got any clues about what could be happening here?

Best regards,
Magnus Enger
libriotech.no