[Koha] Import of .KOC file into Koha 17.11 hangs

[Chris Brown]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for your reply. After some random experimentation I finally got this
to work. The problem seemed to be related to just one entry in the .koc
file relating to a book that was issued way back on 2016-03-30. All the
other books in the file were issued within the last few weeks. Without this
entry the file imports OK, but a .koc file containing just this one line
causes the import to hang, with CPU usage hovering around 80%. I suspect it
might be the fines calculation that goes into a sulk somehow, though I have
no real evidence to support that. Panic over. Our system goes live on
Wednesday; fingers crossed ...

Best Regards,

Chris Brown


On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Mark Alexander <marka at pobox.com> wrote:

> Excerpts from Chris Brown's message of 2017-12-27 17:03:17 +0000:
> > Using a fresh install of Koha 17.11.00 (from Debian packages) I have
> > successfully loaded our patron data, our catalog and our items. However
> > when I try to import an offline circulation (.koc) file, nothing happens.
> > The progress bar sits at 0% and nothing is imported.
>
> I just tried this with a six-entry .koc file on a test installation of
> 17.11.00 in a VM and it seemed to work.  The progress bar did stay at
> 0% for a lengthy period, maybe 15 seconds, which was a little
> alarming.  During that time, the VM seemed quite CPU-bound and I
> couldn't ssh into it; this might be due to the fact that the VM had
> only 1 GB of RAM.  But eventually it did complete and reported that
> "your data was processed" along with a list of the processed items.
>
> Here's what my test file looked like, in case that might help.  Note
> that there are tabs separating the fields, not spaces.  Note also that
> this file was generated by a script I wrote to convert a Mandarin loan
> report to .koc, hence the funny looking timestamps.
>
> Version=1.0     Generator=pdf2koc.rb    GeneratorVersion=0.1
> 2017-08-05 12:30:00 0   issue   R7306   RPL24055
> 2015-07-09 12:30:00 1   issue   R1786   RPL26855
> 2017-07-25 12:30:00 2   issue   R1786   RPL22690
> 2017-08-01 12:30:00 3   issue   R1786   RPL24021
> 2017-08-01 12:30:00 4   issue   R1786   RPL23969
> 2017-08-01 12:30:00 5   issue   R1786   RPL28030
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