Galen Charlton wrote:
On Mar 12, 2011, at 8:08 AM, MJ Ray wrote:
I've been helping someone debug a problem saving records from the reservoir to their catalogue and it seems that one of their sources has subtle errors in their data. The source record contains some control characters. One of the MARC:: modules reacts badly to that and crashes Koha.
Depending on how the MARC:: module in question is crashing, that could also be construed as a bug in that module as well. Would you mind filing a bug at rt.cpan.org or sending details to perl4lib as well?
I don't mind filing a bug but I don't have a neat problem report for this yet. Two problems which I'm working on: 1. I'm not sure which MARC:: module is in question. Koha doesn't seem to be sending anything back to Apache, so the log message is the uninformative "Error reading request entity data" one; 2. A record that crashes one catalogue works fine on another, so I suspect that there may be some interaction with authorities configuration. Does anyone have a record that consistently crashes Koha with the offer to download addbiblio.pl and that log message, and/or do you know which system preferences cause it? Yes, I'm looking for a shortcut, so I'd really like to know if a control character should ever be in the record. Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and LMS developer, statistician. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for Koha work http://www.software.coop/products/koha