[Koha] Help! Can't restore database after koha update

[Gwyan Rhabyt]

Sorry to be slow in replying. I'm a volunteer and only in the school one or
two days a week.

Are you sure it wasn't trying to upgrade your DB, when you logged into the
web installer, what did it say next?

At 10.20.4.48:8080, it says:

Koha Web installer › Step 1

You are about to install Koha.

Please pick your language from the following list. If your language is not
listed, please inform your systems administrator.

Click 'Next' to continue

But I have already installed Koha once, so I didn't continue


And what message are you getting at the OPAC, the library is in maintenance
mode?

No, I'm getting a blank Apache page:

Index of /

[image: [ICO]]Name <http://10.20.4.48/?C=N;O=D>Last modified
<http://10.20.4.48/?C=M;O=A>Size <http://10.20.4.48/?C=S;O=A>Description
<http://10.20.4.48/?C=D;O=A>
------------------------------
------------------------------

Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at 10.20.4.48 Port 80


Also, if you do

mysql -uroot -p koha_paclibrary

You will be in mysql

what does
show tables;
show you?

Nothing (just a prompt)


Try
select * from items limit 10;

Do you get results?

No, just Empty set (0.00 sec);



...
Now if I do follow the Koha Web Installer path:
It says:
Web Installer Step 2
Database settings
database type: mysql
database name: koha_paclibrary
database host: localhost
database port: 3306 (probably OK if blank)
database user: koha_paclibrary
Connection established
Database koha_paclibrary exists.
User koha_paclibrary has ll required privileges on database koha_paclibrary


Then (Step 3) it says we are ready to create the database tables and fill
them with some default data.

Then (still Step 3): Success Database tables created.

(however if I go to mysql in terminal and type "show tables" I still get
nothing)

Then (still Step 3) I am being asked to select my MARC flavor. I choose
Marc21

Then I Select Default settings and click "Import" (it takes a while)
Then I given a list of mandatory data added and mysql data added and I am
told All done! Click Finish.

At this point I can log in as the database administrator, but there are no
libraries, no patron categories, nothing.
Also I still have a blank page from the OPAC view.

I am clearly missing something in my process.

Thanks for your suggestions.
I took time off my day job, so I'll be in today, tomorrow, and Saturday
trying to solve this.

Thanks for any help you can provide.


________________________________________________
Gwyan Rhabyt

Director, Multimedia Graduate Program
Professor, Art Department
California State University East Bay
and
President of the Board of Trustees, Pacific Elementary School District

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Chris Cormack <chris at bigballofwax.co.nz>
wrote:

>
>
> On 23 January 2015 at 08:02, Gwyan Rhabyt <gwyan.rhabyt at csueastbay.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Our small school district library server needed updating (it was running
>> Ubuntu 11.10 which was having problems and was no longer supported). So I
>> upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04LTS and decided to upgrade Koha at the same time
>> (from 3.06 to 3.18).
>> The OS upgrade went smoothly.
>>
>> For the Koha upgrade, I did a mysqldump of the library database (I also
>> backed up the complete user folder as a secondary fallback).
>> I then upgraded Koha which went fine (there were a couple of fiddles on
>> getting Apache2 happy, but they were documented in this group or on the
>> wiki).
>>
>> The problem has been that I can't seem to properly restore the library
>> database.
>> Before the restore,Koha runs but has no books or patrons. When I looked in
>> the /var/lib/mysql/koha_paclibrary folder (paclibrary is our database), I
>> saw about 150 files, nearly all .frm files with a size of 12 blocks each.
>> I followed the instructions at
>>
>> http://kohageek.pbworks.com/w/page/60452540/How%20to%20move%20your%20koha%20database%20to%20newly%20installed%20Koha
>> and
>> did the following:
>> sudo su
>> mysql -uroot -p
>> > drop database koha_paclibrary;  (response was Query OK, 178 rows
>> affected)
>> > create database koha_paclibrary; (response was Query OK, 1 row affected)
>> > quit;
>> mysql -uroot -p koha_paclibrary < jan11dump.sql (which took a few minutes,
>> but returned to the prompt with no errors)
>>
>> Now at this point I again looked in the folder
>> /var/lib/mysql/koha_paclibrary and there is only one file (db.opt) with a
>> size of 4 blocks.
>> I thought at first that the dump was wrong or small, but I checked and
>> jan11dump.sql is 81800 blocks and looks like it has all our info inside.
>>
>> I tried running koha at this point on the web interface and it only gave
>> me
>> the installer, as though koha had not been installed at all.
>>
>>
> Are you sure it wasn't trying to upgrade your DB, when you logged into the
> web installer, what did it say next?
>
> And what message are you getting at the OPAC, the library is in
> maintenance mode?
>
> Also, if you do
>
> mysql -uroot -p koha_paclibrary
>
> You will be in mysql
>
> what does
> show tables;
> show you?
>
> Try
> select * from items limit 10;
>
> Do you get results?
>
> Chris
>