[Koha] Koha Catalog Search Problems

[savitra sirohi]

Joe, it would appear the problem manifests for certain records, maybe
those with diacritics.

You should check your SAX parser settings, also utf-8 setting of your database.

Thanks,
Savitra Sirohi
Nucsoft OSS Labs
http://www.osslabs.biz

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Fahs,Joe <jfahs at stmchs.org> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a interesting problem going on with the search function on my
> Koha installation:
>
> http://library.stmchs.org
>
> There are certain searches that will always bring up the undefined value
> error:
>
> "Can't call method "as_usmarc" on an undefined value at
> /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Search.pm line 2279."
>
> For example, doing a search for "sense" will bring up the error.
> However, performing a search for "sensibility" will return a normal
> search listing. The problem seems limited to the main opac keyword
> search. If I were to search "sense" in the title, I don't receive any of
> these errors. I've looked up the error and it seems most of the
> troubleshooting out there points to various paths for perl, but there
> has been nothing out there that explains why I would be getting such
> inconsistent results.
>
> I have tried running the re-indexing script (we are non-zebra here), but
> that doesn't seem to fix anything. I have wondered if it had something
> to do with the Amazon listings I have been using, but removing that
> information and using alternatives has not altered anything either.
>
> Has anybody seen something similar? I am running on 3.00.04 on OS X
> Server 10.5.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Joe Fahs
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