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SSO Shibboleth & oauth issues
by Justin Dowswell 28 Jun '23

28 Jun '23

Hey everyone, I am Justin from the Tenants’ Union of NSW. Lovely to meet you all, albeit in an archaic manner. There is a Koha issue I am having trouble resolving… It’s a strange issue with Shibboleth and now I think the same issue displayed differently with oauth (that I wanted to implement as an alternative), both using the same IdP, and definitely isolated to Koha and/or the server running it. I believe it’s a caching issue of some sort… When I get redirected back to Koha after a successful login with Shibboleth, I get a HTTP 500 error, with this console output, unsure if actually related or not: (index):6577 crbug/1173575, non-JS module files deprecated. (anonymous) @ (index):6577 Refreshing the page redirects once again with a successful login. Oauth has a similar issue. I am redirected back to Koha after a successful login with the identity provider and I am greeted with an error message: > There was an error authenticating to external identity provider: > wrong_csrf_token Refreshing doesn't fix it but clicking the IdP login link again redirects back with a successful login and token. My theory is the redirect is happening too quickly before the token is actually retrieved. I've looked in Shibboleth's logs and have yet to see anything obvious. Thanks in advance, Justin Dowswell -- *The Tenants’ Union of NSW recognises that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the First Peoples of Australia. Our office is on the lands of the Gadigal of the Eora Nation. We are committed to respecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, cultures, lands, and histories as we battle for tenants’ rights in NSW. Read our full Acknowledgement of Country <https://www.tenants.org.au/tu/acknowledgement-country>.* <https://www.tenants.org.au/> tenants.org.au <https://www.tenants.org.au/> <https://rentingfair.org.au> <https://www.facebook.com/TUNSW/> <https://twitter.com/TUNSW> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEkW8D86OVVAV0QedKFhl9w> This email transmission is intended only for the addressee and may contain confidential or privileged information. Confidentiality and privilege are not waived if you are not the intended recipient of the email, nor may you use, review, disclose, disseminate or copy any information contained or attached to it. If you received this email in error please delete it and any attachments and notify us immediately by return email. Tenants' Union of NSW can only provide information and advice in the New South Wales and Commonwealth jurisdictions. If you are enquiring from another state or territory please contact your local community legal centre.

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Koha 23.05.01 released
by Fridolin SOMERS 28 Jun '23

28 Jun '23

Hello everyone 🤗 The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 23.05.01. It is a bugfix/maintenance release including 6 enhancements, 35 bugfixes. The full release notes are available here: https://koha-community.org/koha-23-05-01-released/ Debian packages should be available soon 🎁 With a great pleasure I will be the 23.05 cooking chef this 6 months meal. Best regards 🤓 -- Fridolin SOMERS <fridolin.somers(a)biblibre.com> Software and system maintainer 🦄 BibLibre, France

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How to limit number of copies?
by Victor Barroso Oliveira 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

Hello, In Koha it is possible to Add an instance or choose to "Add Multiple Copies" simultaneously to a record. So far so good. More..... I had a situation where an employee mistakenly typed 800,000 copies for a record. As a result, when Koha started its automatic Indexing routine, it consumed all of the server's memory and crashed system access. When I tried to delete the 800,000 copies in batch, the system crashed. It took slow deletion from 5,000 to 5,000 to reach 800,000. Considering the aforementioned case, would any colleague know if we can limit the quantity in the option "Add Multiple Copies"? Thanks, Victor

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koha-US July 2023 Events & Meetings
by Jennifer Marlatt 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

Hello! koha-US online meetings and events are free and open to all. 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* Board Meeting - Wednesday, July 5 @ 8:30a PT / 11:30a ET / 15:30 UTC General Meeting - Wednesday, July 12 @ 8:30a PT / 11:30a ET / 15:30 UTC *Special Interest Groups* Cataloging - Thursday, July 6 @ 8:00a PT / 11:00a ET / 15:00 UTC System Administration - Tuesday, July 11 @ 8:00a PT / 11:00a ET / 15:00 UTC Circulation - Thursday, July 13 @ 8:00a PT / 11:00a ET / 15:00 UTC Acquisitions - Tuesday, July 18 @ 9:00a PT / 12:00p ET / 16:00 UTC Web Development - Thursday, July 20 @ 10:00a PT / 1:00p ET / 17:00 UTC Consortia - Thursday, July 27 @ 9:00a PT / 12:00p ET / 16:00 UTC Cataloging - Thursday, July 27 @ 1:00p PT / 4:00p ET / 20:00 UTC Demonstration Instance - on hiatus 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 Jennifer Marlatt koha-US Secretary secretary(a)koha-US.org

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Problem in zebra indexing
by Victor Barroso Oliveira 23 Jun '23

23 Jun '23

Hello, In version 21.05.21 koha-rebuild-zebra -v -f biblio How can we solve this problem in zebra indexing? "Skipping rebuild/upgrade because herd failed on /var/lock/koha/biblio/rebuild/re build..LCK: Resource temporarily unavailable"

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Cannot import records: Failed to connect: Error connecting to localhost:61613
by Giuseppe Angilella 23 Jun '23

23 Jun '23

Hi, after upgrading a Debian (Ubuntu) installation to version 22.11.03.000 Rosalie , I fail to import any new Marc record into the database. My worker-output.log reports: Failed to connect: Error connecting to localhost:61613: Connection refused at /usr/share/perl5/Net/Stomp.pm line 27.; giving up at /usr/share/perl5/Net/Stomp.pm line 26. I believe this strange behavior can be traced back to Bug 26742: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26742 As suggested there, I did manually include the lines: <message_broker> <hostname>localhost</hostname> <port>61613</port> <username>guest</username> <password>guest</password> <vhost></vhost> </message_broker> (which weren't present, despite all previous upgrades) into my etc/koha-conf.xml file, and restarted everything. But the issue is still there. The About tab of my installation says that: Message broker: Using RabbitMQ Any help or hint? Many thanks! Best regards, Giuseppe.

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The Terrific Every-Other-Thursday Training Video | S3E21 | Permission Reports
by BRANNON, CHRISTOPHER 22 Jun '23

22 Jun '23

Sometimes math sucks. And figuring out the math for a report on permissions is the worst. Christopher and George with share their approaches to creating reports that will help you keep a handle on who has what permissions. While the reports are more advanced, the outcome is quite simple and extremely helpful. And they challenge users to find better solutions to keeping up with the ever-changing permissions beast. https://youtu.be/ua355sapZME Christopher Brannon 2023 koha-US President

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updating database Structure Error
by Mr. Sitali C. S. 21 Jun '23

21 Jun '23

Greetings, I need help with the following error; - Upgrade to 22.12.00.041 [21:28:28]: Bug 30649 - Increase the vendor EDI account password field to 256 characters ERROR: Exception 'Koha::Exceptions::MissingParameter' thrown 'No encryption_key in koha-conf.xml' I installed Koha using the following; https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_Debian using ubuntu 22.04 Thank you -- Sitali Chrispin Simasiku, P. O. Box 660193, Monze, ZAMBIA. Mobile: +26 0979 869471 +26 0966 869471 SKYPE: Libsitali

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Publication charges: APCs, BPCs and all that
by Wagner, Alexander 20 Jun '23

20 Jun '23

Hello! Besides our current migration to Koha I am also involved in a project on handling Article Processing Charges (https://www.opencost.de/en/) There it would be interesting to us to learn more how other libraries do it. So, if by chance you do handle publication charges (both closed as well as open access charges; it's a common myth that only OA publishers charge fees...) or someone in your institution does, it would be helpful for our project to learn about it. To this end we set up a small survey https://forms.gle/S8qvuNjvXDJufrfv6 Personally, I'd also be interested if someone uses Koha to this end to explore our options after the migration. It may be suitable, but I had no chance to check out the details. (But from a very abstract point of view it is like buying books. Just way more expensive... ;) -- Kind regards, Alexander Wagner Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY Library and Documentation Building 01d Room OG1.444 Notkestr. 85 22607 Hamburg phone: +49-40-8998-1758 e-mail: alexander.wagner(a)desy.de

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Local covers and the Coverflow plugin
by library＠ssst.edu.ba 20 Jun '23

20 Jun '23

Hello again, I'm trying to find a way to have local covers show in the Coverflow plugin on the OPAC page for titles not added via Z39.50. I had originally set it up using the first example in the configuration (items added in the last 30 days), but going back I see there's another example for adding additional columns. Since it said, "you can add an additional column" I thought I was supposed to paste it below the already existing code. That... ended up with an error yeah :) So I replaced it and ran the report but could not get a local cover. What am I doing wrong this time? I uploaded the cover in the holdings area. Is there another location I should do it instead? I checked old posts on the mailing list, but could not find any solutions for this. I would also like to work out a way to show covers of our collections (e.g. CS textbooks, ECON textbooks, donated books etc.) but for that I need to figure out lists?? I'm on Koha 23.05.00 and Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS. Best regards Aida Đikić

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