[Koha-devel] zebra package

Paul A paul.a at navalmarinearchive.com
Wed Sep 5 17:36:22 CEST 2018 

David and all who assisted,

Firstly many thanks. Upgrading o/s is always challenging (one reason we 
only look into it every two years.)

For the record, the two "show-stoppers" that we encountered were:

     a) modulePath in the four zebra-*.cnf files (the solution that 
David suggested below)
     b) the Ubuntu server install that we used did *not* install 'daemon'

Our new back-up server is now running perfectly, and we're confident 
that we can now tackle the production server.

David -- I might add that we like Zebra, and if you do get involved in 
its maintenance one day, please let me know (btw, we did use the Ubuntu 
repository 2.0.59, replacing 2.0.44, and so far have not found any 
glitches. Could you point me to the problems that you and Robin reported?)

Again, my thanks all round, and my best regards.
Paul

On 2018-08-28 08:34 PM, David Cook wrote:
> 1. Don't compile Zebra from source. Indexdata has a tonne of packages available that you can use instead.
> 
> Take a look at the Downloads section on https://www.indexdata.com/resources/software/zebra/ (or http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/ubuntu/README) . I wouldn't use the Zebra packages from the Debian/Ubuntu distros since they're old and buggy. Robin and I reported the problems with 2.0.59 years ago, but I think the maintainer has disappeared, so nothing is being done about it anymore. I've thought about taking over as maintainer for Debian, but don't have the time at the moment.
> 
> 2. When you're having issues with Zebra, this is a really good place to look: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Troubleshooting_Zebra.
> 
> Robin set it up ages ago and I've contributed to it from time to time. It looks like https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Troubleshooting_Zebra#No_such_record_type specifically relates to your problem.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> David Cook
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org [mailto:koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org] On Behalf Of Paul A
> Sent: Wednesday, 29 August 2018 4:15 AM
> To: Koha Devel <koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org>
> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] zebra package
> 
> On 2018-08-28 01:45 PM, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote:
>> If you are using a regular koha-common package install,
> 
> We're not. As I wrote (below), from tarball.
> 
> There is now a "warn" on re-indexing: "14:04:11-28/08 zebraidx(5446) [warn] No such record type:
> dom./etc/koha/zebradb/biblios/etc/dom-config.xml"
> 
> but the file /etc/koha/zebradb/biblios/etc/dom-config.xml exists and appears to be entirely "Bibliographic DOM config for MARC XML input"
> with 644 permissions for user 'koha:koha'.
> 
> Thanks -- Paul
> 
> please
>>
>> # make sure zebra is running:
>> $ sudo koha-zebra --restart <instance> # and restart Plack just in
>> case it still belives zebra is down $ sudo koha-plack --restart
>> <instance>
>>
>> (replace <instance> with the instance name),
>>
>> El mar., 28 ago. 2018 a las 14:41, Paul A
>> (<paul.a at navalmarinearchive.com
>> <mailto:paul.a at navalmarinearchive.com>>)
>> escribió:
>>
>>      On 2018-08-28 11:44 AM, Barton Chittenden wrote:
>>       > As of debian jessie / Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial), I think idzebra-2.0
>>      should
>>       > be at 2.0.62 or 2.0.63.
>>       >
>>       > There are known bugs in 2.0.59 which is the default for debian
>>      jessie
>>       > and Ubuntu 16.04, so you'll need to use indexdata's repos for those.
>>       >
>>       > I don't know what the version is for Ubuntu 18.04, but 2.0.44 is
>>      very old.
>>
>>      Thanks -- used apt install idzebra-2.0 and Koha-admin "about" now
>>      reports Zebra 2.0.59. Reindexed all biblios and auths. Still "No
>>      results
>>      found". (Ubuntu 18.04.)
>>
>>      Looked at bug 16581. Is the suggestion to compile Zebra 2.1.3 from
>>      source? and if so, is this backwards compatible?
>>
>>      Thanks -- Paul
>>       >
>>       > --Barton
>>       >
>>       >
>>       >
>>       > On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 11:25 AM, Paul A
>>      <paul.a at navalmarinearchive.com <mailto:paul.a at navalmarinearchive.com>
>>       > <mailto:paul.a at navalmarinearchive.com
>>      <mailto:paul.a at navalmarinearchive.com>>> wrote:
>>       >
>>       >     Has anyone else had a problem installing zebra (possibly
>>      2.0.44) on
>>       >     Ubuntu 18.04LTS?
>>       >
>>       >     We are currently updating our IT structure as part of our
>>      two-year
>>       >     LTS cycle. Koha (various versions, all tarball which is a policy
>>       >     decision) install properly, have perfect www interfaces
>>      (admin and
>>       >     public), but fail as all searches report nothing found, because
>>       >     zebra is apparently mis- | badly | not installed ("about" gives a
>>       >     blank, where 12.04, 14.04 and 16.04 report "Zebra 2.0.44") On the
>>       >     other hand, commands such as:
>>       >     ./bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl
>>      <http://rebuild_zebra.pl> <http://rebuild_zebra.pl> -a
>>       >     -r -v
>>       >     ./bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl
>>      <http://rebuild_zebra.pl> <http://rebuild_zebra.pl> -b
>>       >     -r -v -x
>>       >     work perfectly, reporting proper numbers of auths and bibs,
>>       >     cleaning, and reporting no errors.
>>       >
>>       >     I would welcome any thoughts, particularly a debian/ubuntu
>>      package
>>       >     repository/name suitable for either apt or cpan. Thanks.
>>       >
>>       >     Paul

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