[Koha] Indexing Not Updating

[Bruce A. Metcalf]

On 12/26/2015 04:29 PM, Chris Cormack wrote:

>>>> Koha 3.22.1 installed via packages, running on Debian "Wheezy" 7.9,
>>>> both recently updated.
>>>>
>>>> Cataloging works, and I can see the biblioand item records using the
>>>> Inventory tool, but Search does not return any hits. It had previously worked, but as I mostly work on the back end, it may have been a version or two back when last I tried, and patron feedback is nil.
>>>>
>>>> I did try running the Zebra Permission Repair process at
>>>> <http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Fix_zebra_permissions>, but it
>>>> fails with messages like: "sudo: koha-create-dirs: command not found" and "sudo: koha-rebuild-zebra: command not found".
>>> Well that is definitely a symptom of your problem, koha-rebuild-zebra is what the cron job runs to update the index.
>>> Can you do an ls /usr/sbin please, are those files there, if so try running them with the full path, eg sudo /usr/sbin/koha-create-dirs instancename. That should get the index rebuilt. Then you could look up how to fix the path in sudo.
>>>
>>> This appears to have worked for most of the commands from that FAQ
>>> page. However, when I ran "koha-rebuild-zebra" it reported "Records exported:
>>> 2904" at one point, then "Records exported: 10279" at another. Given
>>> that I have about 3300 items at present, neither looks quite right.
> 2904 will be the biblio records, 10279 will be your authority records.
Okay, that sounds reasonable.

>> And while it did report starting zebra for this instance, the catalog
>> search function still fails to find anything.
> I wonder if you still have other path issues, or it might be the switch from grs1 to dom. What version did you upgrade from ?

I think it was Version 3.12 that you helped me install at KohaCon13 
(thanks again). I've since been upgrading each release as it comes out 
using packages.

Thanks,
Bruce A. Metcalf
Augustan Society Library