July 2024 - Koha - lists.katipo.co.nz

Restore the default Marc Framework
by Victor Barroso Oliveira 04 Sep '24

04 Sep '24

Hello, how to restore the default Marc Framework to the original pattern? koha version 22.05.05 ubuntu 20 Thanks, Victor

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Elastic search for Arabic
by Mohamad F Barham 29 Aug '24

29 Aug '24

Dears, Any one up to help in enhancing elastic search for arabic, specially "ال التعريف " at the beginning of word removal Regards Mohamad Barham System Engineer | Information Technology Department Birzeit University P.O.Box. 14, Birzeit, Palestine Tel: + 970 22982012 | Mob: +970 597 861929 | Ext: 5616 mbarham(a)birzeit.edu | www.birzeit.edu<http://www.birzeit.edu/> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The information contained in this communication is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and others authorized to receive it. It may contain confidential or legally privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by responding to this email and then delete it from your system. The University is neither liable for the proper and complete transmission of the information contained in this communication nor for any delay in its receipt. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Problem with 24.05.01 windows stalls with "processing" box
by spazzali＠magritte.it 20 Aug '24

20 Aug '24

Hi everybody we have a Koha 23.11 with it_IT language installed and well running on a Debian 11 system. While doing a ordinary system update (sudo apt get update / sudo apt get upgrade) I'm asked to change repository for Koha-common from 23 to 24. I agreed. The update seems to reach the end without any error and when I log in the version installed is 24.05.01 But trying to open a bibio record from intranet interface a box with the word "Processing..." appears and the windows stalls. I attach a screenshot of the "Processing..." box and the installation log. Koha logs seem clean. If you have any idea it will be very helpful. thanks tommaso

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hidden record
by Сычев Игорь Алексеевич 20 Aug '24

20 Aug '24

Hello! How can I hide an record in OPAC? But this record should be available to the librarian. In the previous ILS, it was possible to put "d" (excluded) in the 05 position of leader UNIMARC. For example: <leader>01104dam0 2200277 4500</leader> Good Luck! Igor A. Sychev Tomsk Polytechnic University https://lib.tpu.ru

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Older Koha manuals
by Charillon, Aude 11 Aug '24

11 Aug '24

Hello, Please be advised that starting this cycle, the manuals for unsupported Koha versions are no longer online. Note: the oldest supported Koha version is currently 22.11 Rosalie. The official Koha documentation page at https://koha-community.org/documentation has been updated to reflect this. **Don't panic! Documentation is still available** If you are still using an unsupported Koha version, you can still access the Koha manual using the "Help" link in the top right of your staff interface. Despite the URL containing your Koha version number, you will actually land on the "one manual" - the latest and only version of the manual from Koha 23.11 onwards. The latest manual is likely to hold the information you need. Older manual versions may also be viewed using Internet Archives, though they are unlikely to be complete. **Download what you need by September** If you want to keep a copy of an older Koha manual, you can download the tarballs from the following repository: https://link.infini.fr/koha-manual-archives You need to do this by 25th September 2024. After this date, the files will be removed from this archive as well. Kind regards, Aude On behalf of the Documentation team Aude Charillon Librarian | Customer Services Consultant PTFS Europe aude.charillon(a)ptfs-europe.com

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Unable to run the indexing after installing elastic search
by Nirmit Krishnatray 04 Aug '24

04 Aug '24

Hello all, I have recently installed elastic search but it gvies an error while indexing. What could be the issue? Best Regards Nirmit Krishnatray

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koha-US August 2024 Events & Meetings
by Kristi Krueger 02 Aug '24

02 Aug '24

Hello! koha-US online meetings and events are free and open to all. *Please note that the August meetings schedule is a little different from other months to accommodate the koha-US Annual Conference from August 13-16. * See our calendar for a full list: http://koha-us.org/calendar/. For Google Calendar users, add our events calendar to your list for easy access to meeting times and links: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/1?cid=a29oYS11cy5vcmdfZG1xb2pkczE5Zn… *Meetings * General Meeting - Wednesday, August 14 @ 8:45a PT / 11:45a ET / 15:45 UTC Board Meeting - Wednesday, August 7 @ 8:30a PT / 11:30a ET / 15:30 UTC *Special Interest Groups* Cataloging - Thursday, August 1 @ 8:00a PT / 11:00a ET / 15:00 UTC System Administration - No meeting in August. Next meeting: September 10. Circulation - Thursday, August 8 @ 8:00a PT / 11:00a ET / 15:00 UTC Acquisitions - Tuesday, August 20 @ 9:00a PT / 12:00p ET / 16:00 UTC Web Development - No meeting in August. Next meeting: September 19. Consortia - Thursday, August 22 @ 9:00a PT / 12:00p ET / 16:00 UTC Visit http://koha-us.org/special-interest-groups/ to learn more and sign up for topic-specific mailing lists. Most meetings and events are recorded and made available at https://www.youtube.com/kohaus Kristi Krueger koha-US Secretary secretary(a)koha-US.org

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Re: [Koha] Out of memory when Koha starts due to opac-search.pl and 500.pl
by David Cook 02 Aug '24

02 Aug '24

Hi Mike, It certainly sounds like a crawler/bot getting stuck in a loop. In your log there, I see the client IP address 190.92.203.86, which belongs to Huawei Cloud Singapore. I've seen a lot of bots/crawlers from Huawei Cloud Singapore hitting Australian Koha sites over the last 6 months or so. That 'AH02811: script not found or unable to stat: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/koha' error is interesting. If you look at /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/serve-cgi-bin.conf, you'll see that at a global level /cgi-bin/ is aliased to /usr/lib/cgi-bin. So if the crawler sent any HTTP requests using your IP address and not the hostname, they'd be caught by that directive instead of your name-based virtual host. Could be some other explanations for why the virtual host wasn't used, but overall that would explain that message. Anyway, it's not necessarily a Koha-specific issue. If you're not already using it, I'd suggest you look at installing and setting up something like fail2ban. That said, I have noticed the bots out of Huawei Cloud Singapore tend to cycle through a lot of different IP addresses, which does make things tricky. Sometimes, it'll just use one IP address that is easy to detect and block, but sometimes it might just do 1-2 hits per IP address (from a variety of different IP ranges). Let me know if you'd like to chat more about it. David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595 -----Original Message----- Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2024 21:10:36 +1000 From: Mike Lake <mikel(a)speleonics.com.au> To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Out of memory when Koha starts due to opac-search.pl and 500.pl Message-ID: <f034d85a454901421773c0f4df4a045f(a)speleonics.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Hi Katrin suggested: > it might be that you are hit by a bad crawler/bot Thanks Katrin. That *may* have been the cause. The system is working OK at present. I did a complete shutdown and reboot. I did notice in the opac-error.log, which is now over 10 MB, a recurring query (see below) that was being made every 30 seconds. Exact same query, clearly automated. That seems to have ended now. cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=ccl%3Dau%3A%22James%2C%20Julia%20M.%22%20and%20itype%3ABK%20and%20su-to%3ACaves%20and%20ccode%3AArX%20and%20ccode%3AArX%20and%20holdingbranch%3AASFLIB%20and%20au%3AMartin%2C%20D.J.%20and%20au%3AWelch%2C%20Bruce%20R.%20and%20location%3AARC&sort_by=relevance_dsc&limit=available I was also getting these errors which were filling up the logs: [Fri Jul 12 21:24:30.948916 2024] [cgi:error] [pid 17819] [client 190.92.203.86:51260] AH02811: script not found or unable to stat: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/koha There is no such perl script $ dpkg -L koha-common | grep '/usr/lib/cgi-bin/' so I just created one to return "hello". Now our Koha instance is back up again and our VM is coping with the load. https://opac.caves.org.au Thanks for the reply. I'll make another separate post on another current opac-error.log error line, if it still persists, after I upgrade from 23.11.05 Mike ASF Sys Admin On 2024-07-13 7:34 pm, Katrin Fischer wrote: > Hi Mike, > > it might be that you are hit by a bad crawler/bot and need to block > access for them in your firewall. There are some that ignore the > robots.txt and they can bring down a Koha server. > > I you look at the Apache access logs you might see that all those > requests come from the same IP address. > > Hope this helps, > > Katrin > > On 10.07.24 13:02, Mike Lake wrote: >> Hi all >> >> I'm having serious problems with my Koha instance. It serves the OPAC >> for the Australian Speleological Federation. We are currently on Koha >> 23.11 on a Debian 10.13. The system has been running fine for ages. >> >> I was getting errors from the OOM killer: >> >> oom_reaper: reaped process 1554 (opac-search.pl), now anon-rss:0kB, >> file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB >> opac-search.pl invoked oom-killer: >> gfp_mask=0x6200ca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE), nodemask=(null), order=0, >> oom_score_adj=0 >> opac-search.pl cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0 >> >> So I shutdown Koha (took a while as I was out of memory) >> systemctl stop koha-common.service >> >> Rebooted the machine and when i bought Koha up: >> systemctl start koha-common.service >> Now I'm still getting 96 processes & errors taking all CPU and memory: >> >> 3620 R /usr/bin/perl >> /usr/share/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac/opac-imageviewer.pl >> 3622 R /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac/errors/500.pl >> 3624 R /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac/errors/500.pl >> 3625 D /usr/bin/perl >> /usr/share/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac/opac-search.pl >> 3627 R /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac/errors/500.pl >> 3629 D /usr/bin/perl >> /usr/share/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac/opac-search.pl >> 3630 R /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac/errors/500.pl >> 3633 D /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac/errors/500.pl >> >> Actually its 96 x opac-search.pl + 57 x 500.pl >> >> A reboot does not help. Every time I start Koha those processes appear >> and take all cores and memory. >> >> I do see that the MariaDB is down. "Failed to start MariaDB 10.3.39 >> database server." >> Attempts to start it: systemctl start mariadb.service >> give that error probably because I'm out of memory does to the 100 >> perl processes running. >> >> A "systemctl stop koha-common.service" does not stop or end those >> opac-search.pl or 500.pl processes. >> >> The /var/log/koha/opac/opac-error.log says: >> >> [cgi:error] [pid 6911] [client 124.243.148.74:47310] End of script >> output before headers: 500.pl >> [cgi:error] [pid 6959] [client 190.92.216.104:41580] End of script >> output before headers: opac-search.pl >> >> Something is borked :-( Help most welcome. >> > _______________________________________________ > > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > Unsubscribe: https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Mike ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ------------------------------ End of Koha Digest, Vol 225, Issue 8 ************************************

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Koha Community Newsletter: July 2024
by Koha Newsletter 31 Jul '24

31 Jul '24

The Koha Community Newsletter for July 2024 is here: https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-july-2024/ Many thanks to everyone who submitted articles and news to this newsletter! Please feel free to email me (kohanews(a)gmail.com) with any corrections or suggestions. -- Michael Kuhn Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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Koha July release with security fixes
by Fridolin SOMERS 30 Jul '24

30 Jul '24

Hello everyone 🤗 The Koha community is proud to announce the July releases: - 24.05.02 - 23.11.07 - 23.05.13 - 22.11.19 It is a bugfix/maintenance release including some security fixes. It is highly recommended to upgrade 🚀 The full release notes will soon be available here: - https://koha-community.org/koha-24-05-02-released - https://koha-community.org/koha-23-11-07-released - https://koha-community.org/koha-23-05-13-released - https://koha-community.org/koha-22-11-19-released Debian packages are already available 📦 Tarballs will be available soon. Best regards 🤓 -- Fridolin SOMERS <fridolin.somers(a)biblibre.com> Software and system maintainer 🦄 BibLibre, France

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