[Koha-oz] Koha search stopped working

[Phil Pope]

Thanks  for the suggestion Bob. That was not it though. I checked and
had no Zombies loose in the server.

I did another search on the issue and found this thread.
https://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2014-November/041323.html

Checking my permissions in each directory listed no obvious problems.
Group and Owner was glenora-koha.  At the end of the thread I saw a
suggestion to recreate the koho directories with this command.

sudo koha-create-dirs mylibrary (replaced with my instance name)

I did this and then tried sudo koha-start-zebra mylibrary

This did the trick and all started working again.

Looking back, the directory permissions were all rwx,r--,r-- on my
dirctories.  After running the create dirs command, they changed to
rwx,r-x,r-x

I have no idea why they had changed to read instead of read and execute,
but that seems to have done the job.

Hopefully this may help others who encounter this issue.

Now I can get back to cataloguing.  Once I think I have a handle on koha
for my personal library, I am planning to create an instance for our
little towns RSL Sub-branch as we have a small lending library for the
members and are currently recording loans in an exercise book in the
hall. At least the permissions don't change on the book.

Cheers,
Phil

On 04/08/16 08:40, Bob Birchall wrote:
> Hi Phil,
> I am not certain, but you may have encountered bug 16885:
> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=16885
> 
> There's been a discussion thread on this that might help you know
> whether this is your problem:
> https://lists.katipo.co.nz/pipermail/koha/2016-July/045810.html
> https://lists.katipo.co.nz/pipermail/koha/2016-August/045878.html
> 
> If this is the problem, you could add yourself to the cc list for that bug.
> 
> I hope this helps,
> Bob Birchall
> Calyx
> 
> On 03/08/16 19:59, Phil Pope wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I set up Koha with an instance called glenora on Lubuntu 14.04 a few
>> days ago and it has been working fine with the 5 records I created to
>> test with up until today.
>>
>> Today I added another 30 or so books using the z39.50 search and now
>> when I search the catalogue from the OPAC or INTRANET page it I does find
>> any records.
>>
>> I tried rebuilding the zebra index without success.
>> It seems that zebra is not running as I cannot see it with a
>> ps -ef | grep zebrasvr command.
>>
>> When I try
>> koha-restart-zebra glenora
>>
>> I get this back.
>>
>> Invalid --pidfiles argument: '/var/run/koha/glenora/' (Directory does
>> not exist)
>>
>> I do not under stand this problem as I never had a /var/run/koha
>> directory and everything has been working until today.
>>
>> The only other thing I did around the time that it stopped was install
>> webmin on the server so I could configure samba.
>>
>> Has anyone else had this issue and fixed it?
>> Everything else on Koha is working ok.  I can search patrons and check
>> books in and out.  Just can't do catalogue searches.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Phil
> 
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