[Koha] Rebuild-zebra stops working very often...

[Sonia P.]

Hello

I just realised that I have never thank you all for your help.  We are still working on it.
We still have that same problem... The nozebra parameter is set on "use".  We have updated Koha, and it hasn't changed anything.
When we run zebra-rebuild, we can see some very minor errors (with records which have been deleted long time ago obviously) but I don't think there is anything in there which would explain that thing.

Cheers,

Sonia.



> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:07:35 +0200
> From: veron at veron.ch
> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Rebuild-zebra stops working very often...
> 
> Sonja,
> 
> I just had similar symptoms - until I remembered that I had set preference 
> NoZebra to "Don't use" for some testing purposes. It always should be set 
> tu "Use".
> 
> It's a little chance, but maybe you might want to check this preference.
> 
> Marc
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Am 25.06.2012 15:18, schrieb Sonia P.:
> >
> > OK, thanks all for your help!
> > I am sorry I don't know all the details and I am obviously not great with Koha.
> >
> > Rebuild-zebra is supposed to run every 15 minutes for us, and sometimes it doesn't.  I know, because then I am contacted by librarians who say they can't find books which they have just entered (or I check myself, I run a few mysql queries and check if I can find them on the website).  So I know it's because the search indexes are not up to date.  Then, I restart rebuild-zebra with the following:  sudo koha-rebuild-zebra -v -f library
> > And then the problem is solved, but not forever.  It stops again later, the same day or another day, sometimes one week later.  If I had more time to work on Koha, I could check exactly how often it happens and things like that, but I don't have time. :(
> >
> > In << sudo tail /var/log/koha/ashs/zebra-error.log.1 >> is ashs the name of the library?  On our server, the closest thing I could find is << sudo tail /var/log/koha/library/zebra-error.log >> and it doesn't give me any information.  So, if I understand well "tail", it means that the file is empty.
> > Same thing for zebra-output.
> > When I look at the current processes (ps -aux), I can see that there is a zebrasrv process runing (it says << Mar26   2:02 zebrasrv -v none,fatal,warn -f /etc/koha/sites/library/koha-conf >>, March 26 being the day when we restarted the whole server).
> > So all that probably means that there is no problem with Zebra, am I right?
> >
> > With the errors I have reported previously (DBIconnect...), what is it that can't connect to MySQL?  that perl script you describe, Chris?  I understand it's not Zebra itself, is it rebuild-zebra?
> >
> > Thanks a lot for all your explanations...
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Sonia.
> >
> >
> >> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:20:57 +0100
> >> From: robin at catalyst.net.nz
> >> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> >> Subject: Re: [Koha] Rebuild-zebra stops working very often...
> >>
> >> Op 25-06-12 02:44, Sonia P. schreef:
> >>> So I don't know what to do... We are stuck.  I can't restart zebra every two hours.
> >>
> >> When you say that you are restarting zebra, what _exactly_ are you
> >> doing? Because, as Chris says, there seems to be some confusion:
> >> restarting zebra should not affect whether rebuild-zebra is doing its
> >> job or not. Also, rebuild-zebra fires up every 15 minutes or so do do
> >> things, does them, and then stops. There is something in your
> >> explanation that doesn't make sense that needs to be figured out before
> >> any useful suggestions can be made.
> >>
> >>> Would reinstalling everything help?  Wouldn't it take two weeks to set up and fix everything?
> >>
> >> No idea, it would depend on what the problem was. In theory, if you
> >> follow exactly the same steps that you did last time, you will have the
> >> same problems.
> >>
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