IRC log for #koha, 2007-12-23

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14:40 owen 'morning #koha
14:40 arsenic hi owen...
14:40 arsenic :)
16:23 kados g'morning #koha
16:35 owen Hi kados
16:44 kados owen: how's it going?
16:44 owen Pretty well, how 'bout you?
16:44 owen Yeah, very quiet so far
16:44 kados I'm the only one in the office, also kinda quiet
16:44 kados the fish are active though :-)
16:45 kados well, I didn't get the RC out last night
16:45 kados I'm working on making sure the installation is painless on at least one platform
16:45 kados and I'd like to resolve a few remaining bugs
16:46 kados so maybe later today, or monday ...
16:46 owen When I didn't see anything about a release, I had a feeling it was installation stuff
16:46 kados *nod*
16:46 kados don't get me wrong, the new installer is really nice ... it's the dependencies that always kill ya ...
16:46 kados and I kinda crashed around 8:30 last night
17:02 owen No end to the patron entry bugs...
17:27 kados owen: yea, chris just noticed dates still aren't working properly
19:59 fbcit kados: what kind of dep issues are you running into w/installer?
20:01 kados none now
20:01 kados just had a few perl mods that weren't playing nicely
20:01 kados but all resolved now
20:02 fbcit did you keep a journal?
20:02 kados I'm wrapping up the README.txt, release notes, and a email to koha-devel
20:02 kados fbcit: yep, better than that, I've got an install guide for debian etch
20:02 kados and I added my debian.packages to git
20:02 fbcit ++
20:03 kados install on etch business card is down to about a 6 minute operation, depending on your network speed to debian servers and cpan mirror
20:03 fbcit I have fought all morning to install ZOOM on Win32 :-(
20:05 fbcit it appears the includes arn't in the c++ stuff
20:05 kados hmmm, strange
20:05 kados well, what I'd suggest is asking the yaz list about it
20:05 kados rather than spending hours and hours ...
20:05 kados or else write a note to Tumer Garip
20:06 kados he's done it on windows ...
20:06 fbcit I just joined the yaz list
20:06 fbcit I have emailed the fellow who does the current win32 koha
20:06 fbcit I emailed the ZOOM list earlier in the week
20:06 fbcit who is Turner Garip?
20:07 fbcit I'll email him
20:07 kados Tumer is the lead guy at NEU
20:07 fbcit I also emailed the author of ZOOM
20:07 kados library.neu.edu.tr
20:07 kados they run koha on windows
20:08 fbcit *if* I ever get this accomplished, I'll write a very detailed how-to
20:08 kados hehe
20:10 fbcit admits...
20:10 kados :)
20:10 fbcit how do I get in touch with Garip?
20:11 fbcit am I looking at koha on their homepage?
20:11 kados lemme track down his email
20:11 fbcit just found Garip's email...
20:12 kados cool
20:12 owen http://library.neu.edu.tr/cgi-[…]koha/opac-main.pl is koha. Lots of customizations to the interface
20:13 owen kados, he's running his own version, isn't he?
20:21 kados owen: yea, some code changes as well
20:21 kados all are in the rel-TG in CVS and quite a few have been ported to 3.0
20:24 fbcit got an email off to Turner
20:26 fbcit looks like his music search is down
20:36 fbcit btw kados: hld's work made a change in buildQuery that could affect Zebra
20:36 fbcit check this out:
20:37 fbcit -               $limit.="($availability_limit)";
20:37 fbcit -               $limit.="($availability_limit)";
20:37 fbcit +               $limit.="$availability_limit";
20:37 kados yea, that's really bad
20:37 fbcit also
20:37 fbcit             $limit.=" and " if ($query || $limit );
20:38 fbcit +               $limit.=" not " if ($query || $limit );
20:38 fbcit I realized when checking back over the patch
20:38 kados yowser
20:38 fbcit I'm not sure if that is part of his fix or not...
20:39 fbcit you'll probably need to reverse those two lines for the time being
20:39 kados *nod*
20:39 kados thanks for the heads up
20:39 fbcit they are the only ones I have seen
20:41 kados fbcit: http://kados.org/stuff/install[…]t.debian.etch.txt
20:41 kados we need a naming convenion for installation guides
20:42 kados maybe README.Debian.devkit.txt
20:42 kados ?
20:44 kados thd-away`: are you there?
20:51 fbcit I have seen README.win README.deb README.xyz etc
20:51 kados *nod* ... this is a specific type of install too ... it's specific to the devkit
21:06 thd kados: yes I am here
21:06 kados thd: http://kados.org/stuff/README.debian
21:08 thd kados: I forgot say the most important reason I needed to use a shell script or a batch file for the frameworks export  ...
21:09 thd Perl cannot capture exit codes from the system to know if your system command worked
21:09 thd and display an appropriate help message if it did not
21:10 kados ahh
21:12 thd parsing for expected values in an output file with Perl is not always adequate compared to having a proper system exit code
21:17 kados owen: around?
21:17 kados owen: your patch ' Minor correction to template markup and change to script to allow for more'
21:17 kados owen: didn't apply cleanly ...
21:17 owen Okay
21:18 kados owen: can you rebase and send it directly to rm@koha.org ?
21:19 owen If not this afternoon, then as soon as I can grab some time
21:19 kados hx
21:19 kados thx even :)
21:23 fbcit kados: mysql> grant all on <kohadatabasename>.* to <kohadatabaseuser> identified by '<kohadatabaseuserpassword>';
21:24 fbcit isn't user syntax for mysql 'user'@'host'?
21:24 kados yes
21:24 kados but I think it works by default with localhost
21:25 fbcit seems like I had to use 'user'@'localhost' to get things to work right.
21:25 kados but yea, wouldn't hurt to add that
21:25 kados README.debian is in Git now
21:25 kados so feel free to add that :-)
21:26 fbcit nice guide
21:26 kados I plan to run through the install one more time once I'm done with the other bits of documentation I'm working on
21:26 kados I was thinking, before the release, we really need to add daemonization for zebra
21:27 kados ie, it needs to be as simple as starting apache and doint a2enmod
21:27 kados that's the one missing piece here ...
21:27 kados there's the zebraqueue daemon, and the zebra server itself
21:28 chris i wonder if  anyone has really tested the daemon yet
21:28 kados I think galen's been running it
21:28 chris cool
21:28 thd kados: I see nothing relating to installing from git in the link you posted
21:29 kados chris: could we come up with a couple quick commands to add the zebra server and zebraqueue daemon to startup scripts?
21:29 chris if you use debian then easy
21:29 chris hard for other os's
21:29 kados yea, this is for debian
21:29 chris ok you wanna install the daemon package that comes with debian
21:30 fbcit thd:http://kados.org/stuff/install[…]t.debian.etch.txt
21:30 kados thd: use the 'dev' target for perl Makefile.PL
21:30 chris then just have to write a quite init.d script i did one for zebra a year or so ago
21:30 kados chris: can you walk me through it? I'm on a fresh debian box and I'll just add that to the debian install guide
21:31 kados that should be present still ...
21:31 chris no idea if it ever made it into the 3.0 tree or just dev_week lemme look
21:32 thd Maintainer: Joshua Ferraro (jmf AT liblime DOT com)
21:32 thd Feedback/bug reports: jmf@liblime.com
21:33 thd please send all your bug reports as spam?
21:33 kados thd: :-)
21:33 kados thd: yea, I should change that to the convention at the top of the file
21:33 kados thd: thanks for pointing it out
21:33 chris ok
21:34 chris apt-get install daemon
21:34 kados done
21:34 chris ok and the script will be something like this
21:34 chris #!/bin/bash
21:34 chris PATH=/whatever/the/path/is
21:35 chris NAME=zebraserver
21:35 thd is the 'AT' sufficient?   Why is 'DOT' needed?
21:35 chris LOGDIR=/var/log/zebradaemon.log
21:36 chris LOGDIR=/var/log/zebradaemon/
21:36 chris even
21:36 chris ERRLOG=zebradaemon.err
21:36 chris STDOUT=zebradaemon.log
21:37 chris . /path/to/conffile
21:37 chris export PATH
21:37 chris zebrasrv=zebrasrv2 (or whatever it is)
21:38 chris actually make that
21:38 chris ZEBRASRV=zebrasrv2 (or whatever it is)
21:38 chris test -f $ZEBRASRV || exit 0
21:38 chris case "$1" in
21:39 chris  start)
21:39 chris    echo "Starting zebra server"
21:39 chris    daemon --name=$NAME --errlog=$ERRLOG --stdout=$STDOUT --verbose=1 --respawn --delay=30 -- $ZEBRASRV
21:40 chris     ;;
21:40 chris  stop)
21:40 chris    echo "Stopping zebra server"
21:41 chris     daemon --name=$NAME --errlog=$ERRLOG --stdout=$STDOUT --verbose=1 --respawn --delay=30 --stop -- $LOOP $ZEBRASRV
21:41 chris    ;;
21:41 chris  restart)
21:41 chris    echo "Restarting zebra server"
21:42 chris    daemon --name=$NAME --errlog=$ERRLOG --stdout=$STDOUT --stdout=$STDOUT --verbose=1 --respawn --delay=30 --restart -- $ZEBRASRV
21:42 chris  ;;
21:42 chris  *)
21:42 chris    echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/$NAME {start|stop|restart}"
21:42 chris   exit 1
21:43 chris  ;;
21:43 chris esac
21:43 kados esac?
21:43 chris case = esac
21:43 chris if = fi
21:43 kados ahh
21:43 kados case backwards, right
21:43 chris yep, its a nice bash convention
21:44 kados ok, cool
21:44 kados some questions
21:44 chris it will need to go in /etc/init.d and in the appropriate rc as well
21:44 kados what's the path?
21:44 chris where ever your zebrasrv binary lives
21:44 chris in this case
21:45 kados /usr/bin/ on debian etch
21:45 kados how about NAME? can that be anything ?
21:45 chris yeah
21:45 chris whatever you call the file
21:45 kados ok, and can we make the zebraserver run as a specific user?
21:45 kados and ahve the log dir owned by that user?
21:47 chris yeah just add a --user=user.group
21:47 chris to all the daemon lines
21:47 chris you might want to do
21:47 chris USER=bob
21:47 chris GROUP=builder
21:48 chris --user=$USER.$GROUP
21:48 kados k
21:48 chris gotta make sure that user has write permissions to whereever you choose as ur logdir
21:49 kados will it create the logdir itself?
21:49 chris nope
21:49 chris that has to exist
21:49 chris it will create the log files tho
21:49 chris you could add a -f test for the dir, and make the bash script make it
21:50 chris or -d even
21:50 kados hmmm
21:50 kados when I run this I get:
21:51 kados /home/jmf/koha-dev/etc/koha-conf.xml: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token
21:51 kados newline
21:51 kados /home/jmf/koha-dev/etc/koha-conf.xml: line 2: '<yazgfs>'
21:51 chris ahh, actually you probably cant use that conf file
21:51 chris take the . /path/to/conffile out
21:51 chris and we will need to add
21:52 chris ZEBRACONFIG=/path/to/config/file
21:52 chris and at the end of each daemon line
21:53 chris after $ZEBRASRV add -f $ZEBRACONFIG
21:53 chris or is it -c ?
21:53 chris i forget
21:53 kados -f
21:53 chris cool
21:53 chris try that
21:53 kados k
21:54 kados if I run it with no parametrs nothing happens
21:54 kados shouldn't it warn me with the usage?
21:54 chris hmm try it with a wrong parameter?
21:54 kados start stop restart are all unresponsive
21:55 chris right the -f test is probably failing
21:55 kados ahh
21:55 chris test -f $ZEBRASRV || exit 0  that bit ... it might need the full path
21:56 chris try it with the full path and see if that fixes it
21:57 kados not following, sorry
21:57 kados ZEBRASRV needs the full path?
21:57 chris change the ZEBRASRV=zebrasrv
21:57 kados got it
21:58 chris cool
21:58 chris i think thats the problem
21:58 kados yea, there we go
21:58 chris cool
21:58 kados ok, so we're getting there
21:58 kados doesn't actually start zebra :-)
21:58 kados no warnings either
21:58 chris not in the logs?
21:58 kados Starting Zebra Server
21:59 kados no logs
21:59 chris ok try this
22:01 chris echo the daemon call
22:01 chris then cut and paste that and check it runs
22:02 chris (where are u writing the script?)
22:02 kados lemme hook you up on the box I'm on
22:03 kados yea, me too ...
22:14 chris ok that seems to have to got it
22:14 kados yea?
22:14 chris give that a go
22:15 kados kohaclone/KohaZebraDaemon.sh start
22:15 chris ull need to be sudo
22:15 kados Invalid option: --user (only works for root)
22:15 chris yep
22:15 kados ahh, ok
22:16 chris this is for an init.d script ie that root starts on boot
22:16 kados awesome
22:16 kados yep
22:16 chris but if you want to run it as a nonprivileged user
22:16 kados ok, so how do we get it into init.d
22:16 kados chkconfig or sth?
22:16 chris you can remove the --user= bit
22:16 chris and then it will run as the user you run it as
22:16 kados cool
22:17 chris ive only done it the old fashioned way in the past
22:18 chris ie cp it to /etc/init.d
22:18 kados guess chkconfig isn't on debian
22:18 chris and set up a symlink from one of the rc's
22:18 chris if i could remember what runlevel to put it at
22:19 kados update-rc.d
22:19 kados update-rc.d is the Debian utility to install and remove System-V style init script links. Other distributions (such as Red Hat) use chkconfig.
22:19 chris there we go
22:19 kados so something like:
22:19 chris so we copy it to init.d then run that
22:20 chris saves making the symlinks manually :)
22:20 kados sudo ln -s KohaDaemon.sh /etc/init.d/koha-zebra-daemon
22:20 kados update-rc.d koha-zebra-daemon defaults
22:20 kados then you can do update-rc.d koha-zebra-daemon remove
22:20 kados to get rid of it
22:20 chris hmm you'll want to change NAME
22:20 chris in the script
22:21 chris to koha-zebra-daemon then
22:21 kados yea, what do we want to call this thing
22:21 kados k
22:21 chris that sounds like a decent name
22:21 kados you editing it?
22:21 chris nope
22:23 kados cool, that seems to work
22:23 kados now, lets see if ti works when I reboot :-)
22:24 kados chris: koha-zebra-daemon.sh good for the damon script name?
22:24 kados nice
22:24 kados it started on reboot :-)
22:25 chris yeah daemon is a cool little tool
22:25 kados ok, so now how about the other daemon
22:25 chris we used it for cafenet to control the routers
22:25 kados that one all set?
22:25 chris ull want to do another script
22:25 chris pretty much exactly the same
22:26 chris but changing the name, path, zebrasvr bits etc
22:26 kados for misc/zebraqueue_daemon.pl instead of zebrasrv?
22:26 chris yeah
22:26 kados oh, it has  a new dependency too
22:26 kados Unix::Syslog
22:26 chris ahh yeah, and POE
22:26 kados already got that one
22:27 chris they are kinda optional . if you want to just use the cron job you dont need them
22:27 chris i wonder how we handle that
22:30 kados huh, nothing in the koha zebradaemon log
22:31 chris its doing stuff tho eh?
22:31 kados dunno
22:31 chris ahh got no data in there to try a search?
22:31 kados zebraqueue is set to 0 after I imported
22:31 kados hmmm
22:31 kados I used the marc import to import a batch
22:32 kados ahh, hang on
22:32 kados forgot to finalize it :-)
22:32 [K] <rangi@FreeNode> :)
22:32 kados heh
22:33 chris i wonder if we need a
22:33 chris --output=spec       - Send clientas output to syslog or file
22:33 chris as well as stdout and the stderr ones
22:33 kados not a bad idea
22:33 chris there are all these
22:33 chris -l, --errlog=spec       - Send daemonas error output to syslog or file
22:33 chris          -b, --dbglog=spec       - Send daemonas debug output to syslog or file
22:33 chris          -o, --output=spec       - Send clientas output to syslog or file
22:33 chris          -O, --stdout=spec       - Send clientas stdout to syslog or file
22:33 chris          -E, --stderr=spec       - Send clientas stderr to syslog or file
22:34 kados ok, 340 lines in zebraqueue
22:35 kados they don't seem to be diminishing
22:36 chris anything in the syslog?
22:36 kados Dec 22 17:28:06 kohavm76 Koha Zebraqueue [2480]: Starting Zebraqueue log at Sat Dec 22 17:28:06 2007
22:36 kados Dec 22 17:28:06 kohavm76 Koha Zebraqueue [2480]: Sat Dec 22 17:28:06 2007 POE Session
22:36 kados Dec 22 17:32:37 kohavm76 Koha Zebraqueue [2480]: 6 operations waiting to be run
22:36 kados Dec 22 17:32:37 kohavm76 Koha Zebraqueue [2480]: Executing zebra operations
22:36 kados Dec 22 17:33:08 kohavm76 Koha Zebraqueue [2480]: 94 operations waiting to be run
22:36 kados Dec 22 17:33:08 kohavm76 Koha Zebraqueue [2480]: Executing zebra operations
22:36 kados Dec 22 17:34:44 kohavm76 ntpd[2192]: synchronized to 66.199.242.154, stratum 2
22:37 kados nothing in the zebradaemon logs
22:37 chris i suspect we nedd the --output
22:37 kados for which?
22:37 chris the zebradaemon
22:38 chris it looks like zebra isnt writing to stdout or stderr
22:38 chris any of the rows in the zebraqueue been set to 1?
22:38 chris (done = 1)
22:38 kados nope
22:39 kados well
22:39 kados the first one
22:39 kados huh, actually a few now
22:39 kados maybe it's just taking longer than I expected?
22:39 chris could be
22:40 kados stuck at 106 though ...
22:41 chris ok lets stop it, and stop the zebrasrv daemon
22:41 chris and then try to get the zebrasrv daemon logging
22:41 kados k
22:41 chris so we can see whats happening
22:42 kados done
22:42 chris cool ill see if i can get it logging
22:42 kados k
22:42 chris
22:44 chris there we go
22:45 chris koha-zebradaemon-output.log
22:45 chris has stuff in it
22:45 chris sweet
22:46 chris lets try starting the queue daemon again
22:47 kados ok
22:47 kados started
22:48 chris right if you tail the koha-zebradaemon-output.log
22:48 chris you can see stuff is going on
22:48 kados cool
22:48 kados looks like some errors in the record.abs
22:48 kados could be a zebra 2.0.20 thing
22:48 chris yeah
22:49 chris could be
22:49 kados so it's pretty fast
22:49 chris seems to be doing the commits tho anyway
22:49 kados yea
22:49 chris so its slowly catching up on the import
22:49 kados yep
22:49 kados now to debug the search :-)
22:50 chris :)
22:51 chris the next trick would be to document how to get logrotate to rotate these logs
22:51 chris (thats why i got the queue daemon to write to syslog, ... so i didnt have to :-))
22:52 chris that can wait tho
22:53 kados well before that we need to get these daemons playing nicely with the installer
22:54 chris yep
22:54 chris i think maybe for rc1 we document how to set up the daemons .. rc2 we make the installer edit them?
22:55 kados should be pretty trivial to get the installer to edit them
22:55 chris true
22:56 kados if we don't get this working, believe me, people will be writing all kinds of messages to the koha list :-)
22:56 kados 'I installed koha but I can't search' :-)
22:56 chris oh we'll get them anyway :)
22:56 kados hehe
22:56 chris i installed this on some system you specifically said it wont work on
22:56 chris and it doesnt work
22:57 chris why?
22:57 kados hehe
22:57 chris but yeah i get what you mean
22:58 chris it should be just changing the values we declare at the top of the shell script
22:58 kados yea, and EU::MM makes that easy
22:58 chris then if we are running standard, we could do the symlink and update-rc.d
22:58 kados we've already got the variables
22:58 kados yea
22:58 chris running other modes .. ur on ur own :)
22:58 kados if galen pops in I'll have him do it :-)
22:59 chris :)
22:59 kados ok, zebraqueue all updated
22:59 chris my family are asleep on the couch
22:59 chris so ive got until they wake up
22:59 kados hehe
22:59 chris but im working tomorrow
22:59 kados sweet
23:00 kados yea, I plan to just blitz until it's done
23:00 chris then tuesday wed off, then back to work
23:00 chris (nz time that is)
23:00 kados I have the whole weekend, all the way through christmas alone
23:00 chris ahh tina gone to columbus?
23:00 kados yea, everyone's gone to visit family
23:01 chris *nod*
23:01 kados it's a nice time for me to get alone time
23:01 kados :-)
23:01 chris ahh thats right, my uncle in fiji is a witness .. they dont do xmas
23:02 chris not the gift giving and stuff
23:02 kados yea
23:02 chris :-)
23:03 chris im in it for the bbq turkey
23:03 kados anyway ... back to debugging search
23:03 chris :)
23:03 kados hehe
23:04 chris one thing to check
23:04 chris is the searchmylibraryfirst sys pref is off
23:04 chris that can cause no results
23:05 chris caught me out at sopac till i released what was happening
23:05 kados well, there's also some suspect code that's creeped into Search.pm
23:05 chris *nod*
23:05 chris ppl have been poking at it a bit lately
23:09 kados :(
23:09 kados koha isn't logging to the apache logs :(
23:09 chris hmm
23:10 kados whasn't that something to do witht he apache version?
23:10 chris is it logging to /var/log/apache2/error.log
23:10 chris yes
23:10 kados yea, it lots to error.log
23:10 chris yep afaict after lots of looking
23:10 chris its a function of the model you choose
23:10 chris mpm-worker etc
23:11 chris we run mpm-prefork on arwen which you dont want to run in production its no where near as fast
23:11 chris but it does log properly :)
23:11 kados hmmm
23:12 kados mpm-worker is the one installed by default
23:12 chris *nod*
23:12 kados k
23:12 kados well that sorta defeates the purpose of having koha log files
23:13 chris yeah they work fine with apache1.3 or prefork
23:13 thd chris: mpm-prefork nowhere near as fast as what?
23:13 chris but with the threaded versions
23:13 chris mpm-worker
23:13 chris The worker MPM provides a threaded implementation for Apache HTTPD 2.1. It is considerably faster than the traditional model, and is the recommended
23:13 chris MPM.
23:13 chris Worker generally is a good choice for high-traffic servers because it has a smaller memory footprint than the prefork MPM.
23:14 thd chris: is everything thread-safe now?
23:16 chris yeah unless we have written some really mental perl
23:17 chris that being said, i know of at least 40 koha's in production running mpm-worker
23:17 chris with no issues apart from the error log problem
01:07 kados hehe
01:07 kados how's the windows one coming?
01:07 kados fbcit: I just added the daemons along with info on how to use on debian
01:09 fbcit I've got a half-doz emails out trying to find out how to get ZOOM compiled on Win32
01:11 fbcit HTML::Template
01:11 fbcit List::MoreUtils
01:12 fbcit Net::LDAP::Filter
01:12 fbcit Net::Z3950::ZOOM
01:12 kados HTML::Template::Pro is wha tyou want
01:12 fbcit XML::Dumper
01:12 fbcit ::LibXML
01:12 fbcit ::LibXSLT
01:12 fbcit ::RSS
01:12 fbcit and Schedule::At is installed, but not working
01:13 fbcit There are libxml and libxslt ports to Win32, but I have not yet tried to get things in order for these
01:14 fbcit I hope what I learn doing ZOOM will make the rest somewhat "easier"
01:14 kados cool
01:14 kados which windows version?
01:14 kados 2000?
01:14 fbcit XP
01:14 kados cool
01:14 fbcit should be fine for 2K
01:16 fbcit right, Pro
01:21 fbcit looks like H::T::Pro just compiled and installed...
01:22 fbcit yup
02:14 kados fbcit: pushed up additional stuff ... the zebra daemons now work with the 'standard' install method ... just follow the debian README
02:14 kados zebra config is now 100% painless :-)
02:14 kados yay!
02:28 kados gmcharlt: can we add an option for zebra to run on ports rather than sockets?
02:28 kados that will expose the SRU capabilities
02:28 kados which I've added to my release notes
02:29 kados and I'd like to actually demonstrate how that can work
02:29 kados it's quite simple
02:29 kados <listen id="biblioserver" >unix:/var/run/koha/zebradb/bibliosocket</listen>
02:29 kados becomes
02:29 kados <listen id="biblioserver" >tcp:@:9999</listen>
02:30 kados ditto for authorityserver (different port thought)
02:30 kados though I mean
02:31 gmcharlt kados: could the publicserver stuff that exists in koha-conf.xml currently be uncommented out?
02:31 gmcharlt or can Zebra list for biblioserver on both the socket and the port
02:31 kados that would require setting up a separate zebra instance
02:32 kados that is periodically updated
02:32 kados perhaps that's the best way to do it
02:32 gmcharlt can Zebra listen on both, rather
02:32 kados ahh, no
02:32 gmcharlt not just list
02:32 kados not that I'm aware of
02:32 kados but it would be worth experimenting
02:33 kados hmmm, the daemon isn't stopping or restarting zebra :/
02:34 kados ahh, zebraqueue was tieing it up
02:36 gmcharlt kados: seems like zebra is willing to listen to both a Unix socket and a TCP port for the same DB
02:36 kados cool
02:36 kados that'd be the way to do it then
02:37 kados hmmm, there are a bunch of parameters missing from the conf file
02:37 kados stuff that SRU server needs
02:37 kados I'll add them back in
02:38 gmcharlt kados: actually, ixnay -- Zebra is willing to listen, but then doesn't seem to service Koha correctly
02:39 kados ahh, bummer
02:39 gmcharlt kados: on other hand, take a look at my  /home/gmc/koha/etc/koha-production.xml
02:39 gmcharlt I have publicserver defined, but it's pointed to same dir a biblioserver
02:40 gmcharlt two interfaces for same DB
02:40 gmcharlt biblioserver for Koha use
02:40 gmcharlt publicserver for external Z39.50
02:40 gmcharlt and I remember that this worked for me a few weeks ago when I was doing some Z39.50 testing
02:41 kados cool
02:41 gmcharlt so do that in koha-conf.xml, add in the SRU stuff, and it just might work
02:41 kados k
02:45 kados gmcharlt: where'd you put the xsl stuff?
02:45 kados foudn it
02:45 gmcharlt never got that far -- was just testing straight Z39.50
02:45 kados /usr/share/koha/intranet/htdoc​s/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/xslt/
02:45 gmcharlt ah, right
02:48 gmcharlt http://intercal.freeshell.org/dd-ex/
02:54 kados gmcharlt: http://indexdata.dk/yaz/doc/server.vhosts.tkl
02:54 kados "The XML below configures a server that accepts connections from two ports, TCP/IP port 9900 and a local UNIX file socket. We name the TCP/IP server public and the other server internal."
02:54 kados gmcharlt: that looks like what we want, eh?
02:55 gmcharlt kados: yeah, looks like it
02:59 kados success:
02:59 kados http://kohavm76.liblime.com:99[…]operation=explain
03:00 kados http://kohavm76.liblime.com:99[…]0&recordSchema=dc
03:00 kados we clearly need a better stylesheet :-)
03:00 gmcharlt success part 2: http://kohavm76.liblime.com:80[…]/search.pl?q=test
03:01 kados :-)
03:02 gmcharlt kados: what's the OPAC listening on, port 80?
03:02 kados http://kohavm76.liblime.com:99[…]0&recordSchema=dc
03:02 kados yea
03:02 gmcharlt success part 3: http://kohavm76.liblime.com/cg[…]-search.pl?q=test
03:02 kados :)
03:02 gmcharlt are there authorities in that DB yet?
03:03 kados no
03:04 kados gmcharlt: did you do the standard install?
03:04 kados following the debian doc?
03:04 gmcharlt not yet
03:06 gmcharlt kados: I added a personal name authority ('Charlton, Galen'), but it isn't showing up in searches
03:06 kados hmmm
03:06 gmcharlt could you see if it is actually in Db and referenced in zebraqueue?
03:06 kados yep
03:07 gmcharlt what's value of done?
03:07 kados it's in there
03:08 kados it's set to 0 currently
03:08 gmcharlt is zebraqueue_daemon running?
03:08 kados hehe, oops
03:08 kados :-)
03:09 kados I shut it down half hour ago ... sorry :/
03:09 kados hehe
03:09 kados ok, started
03:09 kados 513 in the queue
03:09 kados so you've got a good 10 minutes
03:09 kados before yours gets indexed :-)
03:10 gmcharlt how about a quick zebra_rebuild.pl -a -r, then
03:11 kados *nod*
03:12 kados running now
03:13 kados akk
03:13 kados wrong script
03:13 kados where the heck has zebra_rebuild.pl gone?
03:13 kados it's not in /usr/share/koha/bin/
03:13 gmcharlt try /usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools
03:14 kados ahh, it's rebuild_zebra
03:14 gmcharlt oops, sorry
03:14 kados $ /usr/share/koha/bin/migrat​ion_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -a -r
03:14 kados Can't locate object method "newdir" via package "File::Temp" at /usr/share/koha/bin/migrat​ion_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl line 57.
03:14 kados I tend to use the _idx one ...
03:14 gmcharlt hmm, must have an older version of File::Temp
03:15 kados jmf@kohavm76:kohaclone$ sudo -u koha /usr/share/koha/bin/migrat​ion_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -a -r -d tmp
03:15 kados Zebra configuration information
03:15 kados ================================
03:15 kados Zebra biblio directory      = /var/lib/koha/zebradb/biblios
03:15 kados Zebra authorities directory = /var/lib/koha/zebradb/authorities
03:15 kados Koha directory              = /usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin
03:15 kados BIBLIONUMBER in :     999$c
03:15 kados BIBLIOITEMNUMBER in : 999$d
03:16 kados ================================
03:16 kados ====================
03:16 kados exporting authorities
03:16 kados ====================
03:16 kados No such file or directory at /usr/share/koha/bin/migrat​ion_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl line 96.
03:16 kados indeed, tmp has disappeared
03:16 kados wow
03:16 kados yea, it just deletes it
03:17 kados huh ...
03:17 kados same thing when tmp is present
03:17 gmcharlt ok, need to update File::Temp via CPAN (should be version 0.20)
03:17 kados k
03:18 kados updating
03:18 kados I'll update makefile too
03:18 kados same error
03:19 kados gmcharlt: try your search now
03:19 kados no luck with my test
03:19 gmcharlt nor mine
03:20 kados exporting authorities
03:20 kados ====================
03:20 kados 1=
03:20 kados then reindexing zebra
03:20 kados zebra stuff:
03:20 kados 22:19:45-22/12 zebraidx(15608) [log] dir /tmp/emKfADPdmt/authorities
03:20 kados 22:19:45-22/12 zebraidx(15608) [warn] Couldn't open gils.att [Too many open files]
03:20 kados 22:19:45-22/12 zebraidx(15608) [warn] Couldn't load attribute set gils.att [Too many open files]
03:20 kados 22:19:45-22/12 zebraidx(15608) [warn] bib1.att:5: Include of attset gils.att failed
03:20 kados 22:19:45-22/12 zebraidx(15608) [warn] record.abs:51: Bad # of args to melm
03:20 kados 22:19:45-22/12 zebraidx(15608) [warn] record.abs:59: Bad # of args to melm
03:20 kados 22:19:45-22/12 zebraidx(15608) [warn] record.abs:61: Bad # of args to melm
03:20 kados 22:19:45-22/12 zebraidx(15608) [log] add grs.marcxml.record /tmp/emKfADPdmt/authorities/authorities.iso2709 0
03:20 kados finally:
03:20 kados 22:19:46-22/12 zebraidx(15611) [log] zebra_stop: 0.18 0.01 0.00
03:20 kados skipping biblios
03:21 kados ====================
03:21 kados CLEANING
03:21 kados ====================
03:21 kados and that's it
03:21 gmcharlt looks like authority Zebra config is borked
03:21 kados yea
03:22 gmcharlt extra spaces on lines 51, 59, 61
03:22 kados *nod*
03:23 kados 22:22:48-22/12 zebraidx(15750) [log] dir /tmp/iWZUVa3J4i/authorities
03:23 kados 22:22:48-22/12 zebraidx(15750) [warn] Couldn't open gils.att [Too many open files]
03:23 kados 22:22:48-22/12 zebraidx(15750) [warn] Couldn't load attribute set gils.att [Too many open files]
03:23 kados 22:22:48-22/12 zebraidx(15750) [warn] bib1.att:5: Include of attset gils.att failed
03:23 kados but looks like it may have indexed
03:23 kados still no luck on the search :(
03:25 kados works
03:25 kados so it was indexed
03:25 kados looks like the authority search isn't working
03:25 kados I'll work on that
03:27 gmcharlt also looks like ./zebradb/authorities/etc/bib1.att includes gils.att, but may be superfluous if also in zebradb/zebra-authorities.cfg
03:27 kados yea
03:30 fbcit well, I got XML::LibXML installed using an active perl ppd, but it turns out to be built against perl 5.6 rather than 5.8 :(
03:31 kados oh, libxml is a special case
03:31 kados ther's this whole thing where you have to install compatible versions of libxlm2 and XML::LibXML
03:31 kados http://osdir.com/ml/lang.perl.[…]-03/msg00028.html
03:32 kados sounds like there are install hardships :/
03:32 fbcit w/M$ its all a special case...
03:32 fbcit though the EU is making them pay...
03:32 fbcit hehe
03:32 kados :)
03:33 fbcit samba'
03:33 fbcit s
03:33 fbcit happy
03:33 gmcharlt kados: just sent patch to allow rebuild_zebra.pl work with older version of File::Temp
03:33 kados cool
03:33 kados man, I think I'm gonna have to rewrite this authorities search API :/
03:34 gmcharlt eep
03:34 kados maybe not ...
03:34 kados but it's ugly :/
03:36 kados it appears to me that it was re-written to only work for nozebra :/
03:37 kados ok, well I've been at it for 15 hours now ...
03:37 kados I need to tak a break
03:37 kados will work on authority searching when I get back :/
03:37 gmcharlt kados: see you later
03:38 fbcit gmcharlt: got HTML::Template::Pro to compile and install tonight
03:38 gmcharlt fbcit++
03:38 fbcit that leaves just the XML series and ZOOM
03:38 fbcit and modifying S::At at some point.
03:39 gmcharlt fbcit: I think POE might be usable for replacing S::At -- chris might have a better idea since he used it last
03:40 fbcit we'll definitely have to distribute prebuilt modules for these odd ones on Win32
03:41 fbcit I'm not sure on the best approach
03:41 fbcit perhaps a separate installer
03:41 gmcharlt fbcit: yeah
03:41 fbcit perl on win32 is limited to about 3 choices I think
03:42 fbcit active perl uses a somewhat different approach as best I can tell
03:42 fbcit whereas strawberry and vanilla are straight ports of unix perl
03:43 gmcharlt and thus are theoretically a bit easier for us to deal with
03:45 fbcit right
03:46 fbcit libraries and includes seem to be the sticking point when building modules that do calls to c libraries on Win32
03:47 fbcit and my C is very dusty :-\
03:48 gmcharlt fbcit: my C is not so dusty, so I can try to help, although my Win32 programming experience is nil
03:51 fbcit regardless of what pathing scheme I use with the complier, it always complains bitterly about undefined references in the header files specific to the module
03:51 fbcit I even went to the trouble
03:52 fbcit of hardcodeing the absolute pathing to them in the xs file (for ZOOM)... still no joy
03:53 fbcit to see what I mean
03:53 gmcharlt fbcit: have you seen this: http://win32.perl.org/wiki/ind[…]32#LibXML_install
03:55 fbcit ahh, I am just now downloading stuff from Zlatkovic's site...
03:55 fbcit how coincidental
03:55 fbcit but grab a tarbal of ZOOM from cpan and try using dmake to compile it
03:55 fbcit you'll see what I'm fighting...
04:25 gmcharlt fbcit: I see what you mean -- I got ZOOM to compile after a few Makefile changes, but make test fails with
04:26 gmcharlt failure to load the compiled ZOOM.dll
04:31 fbcit gmcharlt: I'm also trying some of the other suggestions from the page you pointed out earlier...
04:32 fbcit it may put the dll in the wrong place
04:32 fbcit or the pathing in %PATH% maybe missing
04:32 fbcit I note from the win32.perl.org page:
04:32 fbcit After following the instructions, during "cpan XML::LibXML", a popup appeared complaining that iconv.dll couldn't be found, so I copied the libiconv2.dll to iconv.dll in the mingw/bin directory, and it seems to work.
04:32 fbcit a smiliar problem may be the case with ZOOM.dll
04:34 fbcit what were your changes to Makefile?
04:37 fbcit XML::LibXML::Common is built and installed...
04:39 gmcharlt fbcit: in ZOOM's Makefile.PL, manually set $yazver, $yazinc, and $yazlibs
04:40 fbcit XML::LibXML is built and installed...
04:40 gmcharlt in Makefile added c:\yaz\lib\yaz.lib in EXTRALIBS
04:56 fbcit-1 I'm surprised that moving the dll to perl/bin does not resolve the issue...
05:16 fbcit-1 ok
05:16 fbcit-1 I cannot read
05:16 fbcit-1 its late
05:17 kados :)
05:17 fbcit-1 gmcharlt: copy yaz.dll to perl/bin and ZOOM Tests out fine
05:17 fbcit-1 0015 here btw
05:18 gmcharlt fbcit-1: tried that, but doesn't work -- must have messed something else up
05:18 gmcharlt fbcit-1: but if works for you, that's progress
05:18 fbcit-1 gmcharlt: bottom line here: Result: PASS
05:18 fbcit-1 ZOOM.dll may also need to be in perl/bin
05:19 fbcit-1 AAMOF, all dll's may need to be in that dir to make them easy for perl.exe to find
05:20 kados arsenic_: you really there?
05:20 kados arsenic_: if you're up for it, there is now a very sane process for installing koha with zebra on debian etch
05:20 gmcharlt fbcit-1: looks I hadn't gone far enough -- yaz.dll depends on a couple other DLLs, which I didn't do yet
05:20 gmcharlt so that's my problem
05:20 kados arsenic_: grab the latest git snapshot and take a gander at README.debian
05:20 fbcit-1 gmcharlt: also, I had to add the path to yaz to LDLOADLIBS in Makefile
05:21 gmcharlt fbcit-1: I'm starting to get cross-eyed myself, but will do more testing tomorrow
05:21 fbcit-1 :)
05:21 kados fbcit-1: you gonna put together README.win32? :-)
05:21 fbcit-1 nah... let'm all do it the hard way... ;-)
05:21 fbcit-1 YES!
05:21 kados hehe
05:22 fbcit-1 and to think...
05:22 kados :)
05:22 fbcit-1 I'm not even going to run this thing on Win32
05:22 fbcit-1 tnx gmcharlt
05:23 gmcharlt no problem -- and thanks for kicking off the Win32 packaging
05:23 fbcit-1 gmcharlt: you were a great help on this
05:23 fbcit-1 I still have an issue with LibXML, though
05:24 gmcharlt thanks; what's the issue?
05:24 fbcit-1 Warning: XML::LibXML compiled against libxml2 20630, but runtime libxml2 is older 20623
05:24 kados fbcit-1: yea, that's what I was warning you about ...
05:24 kados fbcit-1: libxml has this prob where you have to install compatible versions of libxml2 and XML::LibXML
05:25 kados fbcit-1: http://www.mail-archive.com/pe[…]org/msg01006.html
05:25 kados fbcit-1: some deails in that post are wrong, but the gist is correct
05:39 fbcit-1 found and fixed
05:41 kados yay
05:41 gmcharlt fbcit-1: was it two copies of one of the DLLs?
05:43 fbcit-1 libxml.dll vs libxml2.dll
05:44 fbcit-1 I'll have to do this again on a clean os install to be sure I have it all together right
05:45 fbcit-1 kados: I don't know if the Win32 part will be ready for the dev release, but should be for the beta (if you do that)
05:46 kados fbcit-1: well, no rush atm
05:46 kados fbcit-1: I've got three or four bugs that will probably take me most of tomorrow to resolve
05:47 fbcit-1 I'll be gone for a week beginning Dec 29th where there are *no* computers... :-)
05:47 kados wow, lucky you :-)
05:47 chris botswana?
05:47 chris :)
05:47 gmcharlt fbcit-1: good idea
05:48 fbcit-1 chris: in the mountains of good old Viriginia
05:48 gmcharlt was kind of getting the impression that if the place had computers to start with, it wouldn't shortly after you arrived ;-)
05:48 chris same diff :-)
05:48 chris give or take a few thousand miles
05:49 chris and a few degrees of temperature
05:49 fbcit-1 we'll be about a mile from the nearest paved road
05:49 chris nice :)
05:49 chris i hear its really pretty there
05:50 fbcit-1 if the power goes out, you're lucky if it comes back on by the next day... :)
05:50 fbcit-1 beautiful... but I'm partial since I spent the greater part of my life there.
05:54 kados night all...
05:54 gmcharlt good night kados
05:54 fbcit-1 g'night
05:54 chris night, i proposer we release tomorrow night at 11.50pm nz time
05:54 chris (christmas eve in nz) then xmas day will get a new Koha :-)
05:54 fbcit-1 :-)
05:55 gmcharlt yay!
05:55 fbcit-1 I'm going to try to compile LibXSLT and then... to bed.
05:58 gmcharlt heading to bed myself -- good night chris and fbcit-1
05:58 chris night galen, thanks heaps for all your work, and you too the other chris, and of course thanks joshua too
06:07 fbcit-1 libxslt says no, so I'm off to bed too
06:07 fbcit-1 g'night chris
06:08 fbcit-1 night gmcharlt

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