[Koha] 3.8.4 Error message when editing authorities

[Doug Kingston]

Server information Koha version: 3.08.04.000 OS version ('uname -a'): Linux
library.efdss.org 2.6.32.33-kvm-i386-20111128-dirty #5 SMP Mon Nov 28
20:23:39 GMT 2011 i686 GNU/Linux Perl interpreter: /usr/bin/perl Perl
version: 5.010001 Perl @INC: /usr/share/koha/lib
/etc/perl
/usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1
/usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1
/usr/lib/perl5
/usr/share/perl5
/usr/lib/perl/5.10
/usr/share/perl/5.10
/usr/local/lib/site_perl
/usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0
/usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0
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732870c555c7d32c5d2b6a4914c6fa7232eb26b2 Using ICU
We are running the same version on our test server, so I can try that out
there.

-Doug-

On 2 September 2012 18:57, Jared Camins-Esakov
<jcamins at cpbibliography.com>wrote:

> Doug,
>
> More relevant info: Our Authorities preferences.  The more I look at this
>> it looks like a problem with how Zebra is configured or populated or some
>> impedance mismatch between &merge and zebra in ModAuthority.
>>
>
> The key preference here is actually the dontmerge syspref. Other
> preferences in the Authorities tab have no impact on merge. However, merge
> and Zebra don't actually work together at all. The 500 error you
> encountered presumably was hit *before* the bibs were updated, so no amount
> of reindexing is going to change that. I have the glimmerings of an idea
> about what might be going on, though. I wonder if this isn't a side effect
> of the "links to authorities no longer showing up" problem you were having.
> What I would probably do is rerun link_bibs_to_authorities.pl on a test
> server, and see if you are then able to edit authorities without these
> errors.
>
> Could you please confirm the exact version listed in About Koha on this
> server? I know we've already been over this, but I like to double check
> these things.
>
> Regards,
> Jared
>
> --
> Jared Camins-Esakov
> Bibliographer, C & P Bibliography Services, LLC
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