Dear all, I am facing a strange problem. I am a system/network admin and our librarians at the University are saying Koha is reporting no checked out items for people who have checked out books, or displays 1 or 2 checked out items while there are many books checked out. The librarians claim they have not done anything with the circulation. When I check the circulation history and modification logs at the Patrons profile, the logs show that the books have either been returned or issued but the librarians swore they have not done that and that the system is doing that by itself. I have tried to look at the Koha-error_log, I see this error message returns.pl: Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/circ/returns.pl line 413, <DATA> line 522., referer: http://$libraryurl$/cgi-bin/koha/circ/returns.pl Is this related to the problem? Where can I start troubleshooting the problem? The librarians are very worried because bad record with circulation could mean loss of books and they are convinced it is a system problem. We are running Koha version: 3.12.00.000 I will really appreciate your response. Kind regards, Mesfin
Switch on the access logs in Apache, if they aren't already on. Then you can see if someone is indeed returning them and from what ip. It's incredibly unlikely Koha is doing this itself or we would have had many many reports of this. The fact you are seeing returns.pl in the error log means someone or something is hitting the returns page. (they are warns and can be ignored but it does help us track down that someone is using the returns page. Access logs will tell us much more) Chris On 21 August 2014 6:17:03 am NZST, Mesfin Teshome <mesfinatyh@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear all, I am facing a strange problem. I am a system/network admin and our librarians at the University are saying Koha is reporting no checked out items for people who have checked out books, or displays 1 or 2 checked out items while there are many books checked out. The librarians claim they have not done anything with the circulation. When I check the circulation history and modification logs at the Patrons profile, the logs show that the books have either been returned or issued but the librarians swore they have not done that and that the system is doing that by itself. I have tried to look at the Koha-error_log, I see this error message returns.pl: Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/circ/returns.pl line 413, <DATA> line 522., referer: http://$libraryurl$/cgi-bin/koha/circ/returns.pl Is this related to the problem? Where can I start troubleshooting the problem? The librarians are very worried because bad record with circulation could mean loss of books and they are convinced it is a system problem.
We are running Koha version: 3.12.00.000 I will really appreciate your response. Kind regards, Mesfin _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
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The access.log is the only possible way to find the problems, unless soneone has compromised that file also. best wishes, Sudhir Gandotra koha.openlx.com On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Mesfin Teshome <mesfinatyh@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear all, I am facing a strange problem. I am a system/network admin and our librarians at the University are saying Koha is reporting no checked out items for people who have checked out books, or displays 1 or 2 checked out items while there are many books checked out. The librarians claim they have not done anything with the circulation. When I check the circulation history and modification logs at the Patrons profile, the logs show that the books have either been returned or issued but the librarians swore they have not done that and that the system is doing that by itself. I have tried to look at the Koha-error_log, I see this error message returns.pl: Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/circ/returns.pl line 413, <DATA> line 522., referer: http://$libraryurl$/cgi-bin/koha/circ/returns.pl Is this related to the problem? Where can I start troubleshooting the problem? The librarians are very worried because bad record with circulation could mean loss of books and they are convinced it is a system problem.
We are running Koha version: 3.12.00.000 I will really appreciate your response. Kind regards, Mesfin _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
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On 21/08/14 17:44, Sudhir Gandotra wrote:
The access.log is the only possible way to find the problems, unless soneone has compromised that file also.
best wishes,
Sudhir Gandotra koha.openlx.com
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Mesfin Teshome <mesfinatyh@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear all, I am facing a strange problem. I am a system/network admin and our librarians at the University are saying Koha is reporting no checked out items for people who have checked out books, or displays 1 or 2 checked out items while there are many books checked out. The librarians claim they have not done anything with the circulation. When I check the circulation history and modification logs at the Patrons profile, the logs show that the books have either been returned or issued but the librarians swore they have not done that and that the system is doing that by itself. I have tried to look at the Koha-error_log, I see this error message returns.pl: Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/circ/returns.pl line 413, <DATA> line 522., referer: http://$libraryurl$/cgi-bin/koha/circ/returns.pl Is this related to the problem? Where can I start troubleshooting the problem? The librarians are very worried because bad record with circulation could mean loss of books and they are convinced it is a system problem.
We are running Koha version: 3.12.00.000 I will really appreciate your response. Kind regards, Mesfin _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
The one time I have heard of a complaint like this, the browser was set to autocomplete certain fields, such as the barcode fields on issue and return. Mind, that was ages ago (version 3.6 days) and most of the relevant fields that could cause this problem have been set to disallow browser autocomplete. However, that doesn't necessarily mean anything - you might try turning off autocomplete in your browsers, and see if this behaviour stops - especially if you are using an older browser version. Cheers, Liz -- -- Liz Rea Catalyst.Net Limited Level 6, Catalyst House, 150 Willis Street, Wellington. P.O Box 11053, Manners Street, Wellington 6142 GPG: B149 A443 6B01 7386 C2C7 F481 B6c2 A49D 3726 38B7
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