Hello again, Bruce, I had some more thoughts today about your situation. What are the results of the following commands? Clearly your installation is incomplete. dpkg -l koha-common dpkg -s koha-common They are similar, in that the first is a summary and the second is more detailed. For example, one of my systems shows the following with the first: ~# dpkg -l koha-common Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-============-============-=============================================== hi koha-common 22.05.12-1 all integrated (physical) library management system And the same system shows this with apt: ~# apt policy koha-common koha-common: Installed: 22.05.12-1 Candidate: 22.05.12-1 Version table: *** 22.05.12-1 500 500 http://debian.koha-community.org/koha 22.05/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status In case you need the commands for grabbing your database: ~# mysql -uroot -p
show databases; (take note of KOHA_DB in the table) quit ~# mysqldump --databases KOHA_DB > koha_db_dump.sql
If your other configuration files – most of which are in /etc/koha/ and /var/lib/koha/ – are missing, you may be able to copy them from within the full-drive backup. Some formats are easier to mount and browse than others. What do you use? On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 10:35 PM David Liddle <david@liddles.net> wrote:
Bruce, it’s an intriguing problem, since you’ve come from a working system. However, I shouldn’t think about it while I ought to be sleeping. Perhaps others will chime in as the sun works its way across the US. But I do have some more questions:
- What other services are running on that server? Are they all still working correctly? - What clues are there in the logs in /var/log/? - Is the apt installer working generally, or do you perhaps have a broken Debian installation? Can you update or install other packages successfully? - Can you access the database server to do a manual dump of the Koha database?
On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 8:51 PM Bruce A. Metcalf <library@augustansociety.org> wrote:
On 5/15/23 12:12, David Liddle wrote:
I see now that I overlooked your statement that commands such as 'koha-dump' are not recognized. Do they appear in the directory /usr/sbin/?
No. Not a single koha- command present in that directory.
Do you have automated Koha backups configured that are available in /var/spool/koha/{instance}?
No, though that would have been smart of me. I don't even have a directory /var/spool/koha, much less /var/spool/koha/instance.
Appreciate the effort.
Respectfully, / Bruce / Bruce A. Metcalf, Librarian The Augustan Library