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[Mark Tompsett]

Greetings,

>> koha-zebradaemon-output.log:
>> 22:07:15-19/09 zebrasrv(14) [warn] ir_session (exception)
>> 22:07:20-19/09 zebrasrv(15) [warn] zebra_lock_create fail
>> fname=/var/lock/koha/zebradb/biblios/norm..LCK [Permission denied]

Mason James said:
> your zebra files have incorrect permissions…  (you ran rebuild-zebra.pl 
> accidentally as root?)

If your /etc/cron.d/koha file says "koha" as the user, then you need to:
chown -R -v koha.koha /var/lock/koha
and perhaps other directories too. The -v shows you what it is doing. The -R 
is recursive, so subdirectories and files get fixed too.

$ sudo su - koha
$ <now run the reindex, and make sure the environment variables KOHA_CONF 
and PERL5LIB are set properly too>


>> koha-zebraqueue-output.log:
>> DBD::mysql::db commit failed: MySQL server has gone away at
>> /usr/share/koha/bin/zebraqueue_daemon.pl line 135.

Oooo. I had this, it may be a low memory problem. If your system thinks a 
process is going to hog too much memory, it kills it.
What does "free -m" say? If you have less than 55MB free and no swap, you 
are seriously up a creek. You need more memory.

We were running a machine with only 512MB of RAM with no swap. Needless to 
say, things were mysteriously failing. If you can't give Koha a machine with 
at least (and I'm saying this is still not really enough) 1GB, then you can 
expect these sorts of problems.

GPML,
Mark Tompsett