[Koha] Biblio appears twice (absolute duplicate down to timestamp and biblio and control numbers)

[Elaine Bradtke]

I've downloaded and deleted the good record.  The bad one still appears in
the search results, but when I click on the link I get Error 500 Internal
Server Error

Internal Server Error

Guru Meditation:

XID: 1250605665

Varnish cache server


On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 9:22 PM, Elaine Bradtke <eb at efdss.org> wrote:

> On further investigation, this seems to be a problem with the link
> parsing. I'm not sure how I can get to the bad record, because Koha keeps
> bringing up the good record. There appears to be some very small
> differences, as if the record was saved in mid edit, and saved again, with
> the same timestamp and numbers.  There is a space and 7c after the biblio
> number in the bad record.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Elaine Bradtke <eb at efdss.org> wrote:
>
>> Koha 3.14.06
>>
>> Quite a while back we had a problem with duplicate biblios appearing for
>> newly added catalogue records.
>> But this time it's only one.  It is an exact duplicate of a record that
>> had an item added to it (not a new catalogue record).  A search on the
>> biblio number returns both records, one says no items, the other has four
>> items attached.  However if you click on the record with no items, it shows
>> the four items attached, if you click on the "next" button, it shows the
>> same record.
>> Looking at the MARC in two separate windows, they are absolutely
>> identical - time stamp, biblionumber, control number.  This shouldn't be
>> possible.
>> I don't know how to fix this, because I can't tell which is the ghost and
>> which is the original.   I'm tempted to export the record. Delete both
>> copies, and then re import the record.
>> We run Koha on a virtual machine, and I hear that there was a reboot over
>> the weekend and our test site froze. Production only seems to have suffered
>> this one glitch as far as we can tell. Re-indexing didn't seem to help. Is
>> there is a particular command we need to use to resolve duplicate biblios?
>>
>> Any ideas?
>> --
>> Elaine Bradtke
>> Data Wrangler
>> VWML
>> English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org
>> Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY
>> Tel    +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance
>> and Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally,
>> send an e-mail first. I work off site)
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Registered Company No. 297142
>> Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture"
>> --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52)
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Elaine Bradtke
> Data Wrangler
> VWML
> English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org
> Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY
> Tel    +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance
> and Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally,
> send an e-mail first. I work off site)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Registered Company No. 297142
> Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture"
> --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52)
>



-- 
Elaine Bradtke
Data Wrangler
VWML
English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org
Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY
Tel    +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance and
Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally, send
an e-mail first. I work off site)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Registered Company No. 297142
Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture"
--Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52)