[Koha] The following fatal error has occurred:can't call method

[Ricardo Dias Marques]

Hi Marius,

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 08:35, Marius ADAHA <ewasmars at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> I'm from Benin at Songhai Center library. Currently we installed Koha
> 3.00.02.012 on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.
>
> I was successful using the manuals for installation. But when
> the librarians are adding or editing an item in to the database, it will show us:
>
> "Koha error
>
> The following fatal error has occurred:
>
> Can't call method "append_fields" on an undefined value at
> /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/MARC/File/SAX.pm line 92.

By your description, it seems to be that you were hit by the following bug:

Bug 3520 - crash when adding or editing item record
http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3520

The good news is that this bug has been fixed in Koha 3.0.4 that was
released yesterday!  :)

You can check this by reading the Release Notes for Koha 3.0.4, that
are available at:

http://git.koha.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=Koha;a=blob;f=misc/release_notes/release_notes_30004.txt;h=44318a6cd1dd6c9dec388f544daaadfdfb27442a;hb=2eba46985bb67eadf7fe896dbe50df4d995e03a5

In that "Release Notes" page, in the section "Exhaustive list of bugs
fixed follows" you'll find, among many other bug fixes, the following
line: "3520 fix crash when adding or editing items".

So, my advice would be for you to update your installation to Koha
3.0.4, and see if that solves your problem.

I hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ricardo Dias Marques
lists AT ricmarques DOT net
Installation Guide for Installing Koha 3 on openSUSE 11
http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=opensuse_11.0