I've been watching Koha's progress for a couple of years now. I tried 1.04, had some install troubles (with CDK in particular) and put it on the backburner. In any case, I decided 1.20 was a good point to reassess things. Things are looking much better (thank you so much for the web interface, now I don't have to monkey with CDK). That said, I've had a number of problems with 1.20 as well. Looking at the recent list archive I can see that others are having trouble with 1.2.0 as well. I just wanted to lay out a few of the problems I've had (some may be repititions of other's posts). 1) Several links to koha.some.where/cgi-bin/koha/etc. that failed based on the example <VirtualHost> entries. My solution was to change my ScriptAlias entry in httpd.conf to: ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/koha/ /home/httpd/koha/cgi-bin/ instead of: ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/httpd/koha/cgi-bin/ 2) On the members/index.html there's a link to members/results-add.html, but no such file exists. 3) The other problem, which Pete mentioned in his "koha install problems on RH 7.2 MORE DATA" is that all but one of the scripts in koha/cgi-bin/admin/ have compilation problems. For instance, running perl -cw branches.pl leads to: Scalar value @biblioitems[$x] better written as $biblioitems[$x] at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/C4/Reserves2.pm line 189, <KC> line 6. "my" variable $sth masks earlier declaration in same scope at branches.pl line 192, <KC> line 6. Too many arguments for C4::Output::mklink at branches.pl line 262, near "'')" branches.pl had compilation errors. 4) A few other notes. In the INSTALL file, there are a few confusing spots. One is that database name in all the mysql commands is Koha, but in the sample koha.conf file it's koha. Also, at least with perl 5.005 the -I option must come before the script name, so the command: perl scripts/updater/updatedatabase -I /pathtoC4 should probably read (and why not point to the pathtoC4 dir): perl -I modules/ scripts/updater/updatedatabase All in all though, things are looking good. Once the admin scripts get fixed up, I'll start showing it off to the folks here at the Library and Information Science School. Thanks for all the hard work. -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at | Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/ | Systems Administrator UT-GSLIS =----------------------------------+------------------------------- All syllogisms contain three lines | broot@gslis.utexas.edu Therefore this is not a syllogism | www.gslis.utexas.edu/~shanew
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Shane Williams wrote:
I've been watching Koha's progress for a couple of years now. I tried 1.04, had some install troubles (with CDK in particular) and put it on the backburner.
Thanks for sticking with Koha.
In any case, I decided 1.20 was a good point to reassess things. Things are looking much better (thank you so much for the web interface, now I don't have to monkey with CDK). That said, I've had a number of problems with 1.20 as well. Looking at the recent list archive I can see that others are having trouble with 1.2.0 as well.
Yep, there are some issues with 1.2.0, a 1.2.1 release to fix the things we've seen should be out shortly.
I just wanted to lay out a few of the problems I've had (some may be repititions of other's posts).
1) Several links to koha.some.where/cgi-bin/koha/etc. that failed based on the example <VirtualHost> entries. My solution was to change my ScriptAlias entry in httpd.conf to:
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/koha/ /home/httpd/koha/cgi-bin/ instead of: ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/httpd/koha/cgi-bin/
2) On the members/index.html there's a link to members/results-add.html, but no such file exists.
3) The other problem, which Pete mentioned in his "koha install problems on RH 7.2 MORE DATA" is that all but one of the scripts in koha/cgi-bin/admin/ have compilation problems. For instance, running perl -cw branches.pl leads to:
Scalar value @biblioitems[$x] better written as $biblioitems[$x] at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/C4/Reserves2.pm line 189, <KC> line 6. "my" variable $sth masks earlier declaration in same scope at branches.pl line 192, <KC> line 6. Too many arguments for C4::Output::mklink at branches.pl line 262, near "'')" branches.pl had compilation errors.
4) A few other notes. In the INSTALL file, there are a few confusing spots. One is that database name in all the mysql commands is Koha, but in the sample koha.conf file it's koha. Also, at least with perl 5.005 the -I option must come before the script name, so the command:
perl scripts/updater/updatedatabase -I /pathtoC4 should probably read (and why not point to the pathtoC4 dir):
perl -I modules/ scripts/updater/updatedatabase
All in all though, things are looking good. Once the admin scripts get fixed up, I'll start showing it off to the folks here at the Library and Information Science School. Thanks for all the hard work.
Great! Please let us know how things go. And what we can do to help make the presentation go more smoothly. -pate
Found another few problems just now. On a number of the second level pages under the koha main page, there are links to "Help" on the bottom text navigation, but no help/ directory exists in koha/htdocs. I also get server errors on request.pl and modbib.pl. Here are the relevant lines from my koha-error.log: [Fri Jun 21 15:14:47 2002] [error] [client 128.83.248.24] Premature end of script headers: /home/httpd/koha/cgi-bin/request.pl Not enough arguments for C4::Output::startmenu at /home/httpd/koha/cgi-bin/modbib.pl line 29, near "()" Execution of /home/httpd/koha/cgi-bin/modbib.pl aborted due to compilation errors. [Fri Jun 21 15:14:58 2002] [error] [client 128.83.248.24] Premature end of script headers: /home/httpd/koha/cgi-bin/modbib.pl I also couldn't uplaod MARC records from the LOC. The script ran, but it continues to say the search is pending. I can't tell if the script itself is dieing, or if maybe I'm using it wrong. I'm going to try and find another MARC server and try that instead. -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at | Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/ | Systems Administrator UT-GSLIS =----------------------------------+------------------------------- All syllogisms contain three lines | broot@gslis.utexas.edu Therefore this is not a syllogism | www.gslis.utexas.edu/~shanew
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Shane Williams wrote:
Found another few problems just now.
Shane, thanks for continuing to alert us of these. Would you mind subscribing to the koha-devel list, and making reports there as well. This is a much quicker way to reach the core developers. (Reporting them on the koha users list is fine too, but should probably be in addition to as opposed to instead of the developers list.) thanks, -pate
On a number of the second level pages under the koha main page, there are links to "Help" on the bottom text navigation, but no help/ directory exists in koha/htdocs.
I also get server errors on request.pl and modbib.pl. Here are the relevant lines from my koha-error.log:
[Fri Jun 21 15:14:47 2002] [error] [client 128.83.248.24] Premature end of script headers: /home/httpd/koha/cgi-bin/request.pl Not enough arguments for C4::Output::startmenu at /home/httpd/koha/cgi-bin/modbib.pl line 29, near "()" Execution of /home/httpd/koha/cgi-bin/modbib.pl aborted due to compilation errors. [Fri Jun 21 15:14:58 2002] [error] [client 128.83.248.24] Premature end of script headers: /home/httpd/koha/cgi-bin/modbib.pl
I also couldn't uplaod MARC records from the LOC. The script ran, but it continues to say the search is pending. I can't tell if the script itself is dieing, or if maybe I'm using it wrong. I'm going to try and find another MARC server and try that instead.
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Shane Williams wrote:
I also couldn't uplaod MARC records from the LOC. The script ran, but it continues to say the search is pending. I can't tell if the script itself is dieing, or if maybe I'm using it wrong. I'm going to try and find another MARC server and try that instead.
There is a separate daemon process that has to run to process the Z3950 queries. I did this because Z3950 queries can take a considerable amount of time, and it also allows multiple queries to run in parallel. The Koha installer does not set up any init scripts to run this process yet, although a launcher exists. Try running the z3950-daemon-launch.sh script in the: /intranet-cgi/acqui.simple/ directory. Steve.
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Shane Williams wrote:
I also get server errors on request.pl and modbib.pl. Here are the relevant lines from my koha-error.log:
[Fri Jun 21 15:14:47 2002] [error] [client 128.83.248.24] Premature end of script headers: /home/httpd/koha/cgi-bin/request.pl Not enough arguments for C4::Output::startmenu at /home/httpd/koha/cgi-bin/modbib.pl line 29, near "()" Execution of /home/httpd/koha/cgi-bin/modbib.pl aborted due to compilation errors. [Fri Jun 21 15:14:58 2002] [error] [client 128.83.248.24] Premature end of script headers: /home/httpd/koha/cgi-bin/modbib.pl
modbib.pl was fixed yesterday during the work merging rel-1-2 and main branches. The startmenu() function was being called without the 'catalogue' parameter. This fix is _NOT_ in the 1.2.1 release candidate! I'm not sure about request.pl, as not enough of the error log is included above to determine what the error was with request.pl. Shane, can you pass along a few more lines before the one that says "Premature end of script headers: /home/httpd/koha/cgi-bin/request.pl"? request.pl suffered from the same startmenu() problem as modbib.pl, so it is likely that it is the same problem, and it was also fixed by me yesterday. This fix is also _NOT_ in the 1.2.1 release candidate. Steve.
participants (3)
-
Pat Eyler -
Shane Williams -
Tonnesen Steve