[Koha] Items Not Being Cleared From Patron Account After Check-In

Nick Clemens nick at bywatersolutions.com
Tue May 23 02:34:41 NZST 2017


Hi Lennon,

The auto_increment will need to be increased and those duplicated IDs as
well.

Trying to clarify the error below

The error seems to stem from a situation where there are greater
issues.issue_id's than old_issues.issue_id

For a scenario:
Old issues has: 1,2,3,4,5,9,10
Issues has: 6,7,8 (auto_increment 11)
SERVER RESTARTED
Old issues unchanged
Issues has: 6,7,8 (auto_increment 9)

Actions:
Issues 9, 10, 11, 12 created
checkin issue 9 - found in old_issues, try increasing to 11 - but issues 11
exists - checkin fails

Talking with Jonathan and Kyle, we face another problem in that
accountlines are now linked to issue_id - so altering one breaks the
connection. This scenario is rare at least but must be handled.


On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:15 AM Lennon Mazonde <lmmazonde at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Nick,
>
> Thanks for responding.
>
> Try: SELECT issue_id FROM issues JOIN old_issues USING (issue_id)
>
>
> Running the above produced about 91 rows of overlapping values:
>
> mysql> SELECT issue_id FROM issues JOIN old_issues USING (issue_id);
> +----------+
> | issue_id |
> +----------+
> |    14374 |
> |    14424 |
> |    14372 |
> |    14369 |
> |    14617 |
> |    14391 |
> |    14383 |
> |    14381 |
>
> and so on...
>
>
> You can then alter those ids but pushing them up and bump the
> auto_increment for the table above the MAX(issue_id) FROM old_issues.
>
> I'll increase the auto increment and let you know if that solves the issue.
>
>
> A similar problem can occur in the reserves/old_reserves tables
>
> I  checked the reserves/old_reserves tables, there no duplicate
> reserve_ids there.
>
> Regards,
>
> Lennon
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 6:00 AM Lennon Mazonde <lmmazonde at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I'm running Koha 16.11.07, installed via packages, on Ubuntu 14.04.
>> Recently, one of my clients started having circulation problems with
>> their Koha system. Items that have been checked in are still appearing
>> in the patron's account. This has been happening randomly to different
>> patrons at different times using different items. There is no consistent
>> traceable pattern, and there are no errors showing client-side.
>>
>> When i checked the Koha intranet logs, the following errors came up:
>>
>>          [Mon May 22 07:04:15.958812 2017] [cgi:error] [pid 6424]
>> [client 154.120.230.62:27062] AH01215: [Mon May 22 07:04:15 2017]
>> returns.pl: DBD::mysql::db do failed: Duplicate entry '14846' for key
>> 'PRIMARY' [for Statement "UPDATE issues SET issue_id = ? WHERE issue_id
>> = ?"] at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Circulation.pm line 2179., referer:
>> http://aby.com/cgi-bin/koha/circ/returns.pl
>>          [Mon May 22 07:08:57.501919 2017] [cgi:error] [pid 6879]
>> [client 154.120.230.62:31881] AH01215: [Mon May 22 07:08:57 2017]
>> returns.pl: DBD::mysql::db do failed: Duplicate entry '14847' for key
>> 'PRIMARY' [for Statement "UPDATE issues SET issue_id = ? WHERE issue_id
>> = ?"] at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Circulation.pm line 2179., referer:
>> http://aby.com/cgi-bin/koha/circ/circulation.pl
>>          [Mon May 22 08:56:10.808209 2017] [cgi:error] [pid 20939]
>> [client 154.120.230.62:43475] AH01215:
>>          [Mon May 22 08:56:10 2017] returns.pl: DBD::mysql::db do
>> failed: Duplicate entry '14848' for key 'PRIMARY' [for Statement "UPDATE
>> issues SET issue_id = ? WHERE issue_id = ?"] at
>> /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Circulation.pm line 2179., referer:
>> http://aby.com/cgi-bin/koha/circ/returns.pl
>>          [Mon May 22 08:56:17.116111 2017] [cgi:error] [pid 20939]
>> [client 154.120.230.62:43475] AH01215: [Mon May 22 08:56:17 2017]
>> returns.pl: DBD::mysql::db do failed: Duplicate entry '14849' for key
>> 'PRIMARY' [for Statement "UPDATE issues SET issue_id = ? WHERE issue_id
>> = ?"] at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Circulation.pm line 2179., referer:
>> http://aby.com/cgi-bin/koha/circ/returns.pl
>>          [Mon May 22 08:56:22.893948 2017] [cgi:error] [pid 20939]
>> [client 154.120.230.62:43475] AH01215: [Mon May 22 08:56:22 2017]
>> returns.pl: DBD::mysql::db do failed: Duplicate entry '14850' for key
>> 'PRIMARY' [for Statement "UPDATE issues SET issue_id = ? WHERE issue_id
>> = ?"] at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Circulation.pm line 2179., referer:
>> http://aby.com/cgi-bin/koha/circ/returns.pl
>>          [Mon May 22 08:59:21.098733 2017] [cgi:error] [pid 21279]
>> [client 154.120.230.62:44454] AH01215:
>>          [Mon May 22 08:59:21 2017] circulation.pl: DBD::mysql::db do
>> failed: Duplicate entry '14851' for key 'PRIMARY' [for Statement "UPDATE
>> issues SET issue_id = ? WHERE issue_id = ?"] at
>> /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Circulation.pm line 2179., referer:
>> http://aby.com/cgi-bin/koha/circ/circulation.pl
>>          [Mon May 22 09:08:18.138124 2017] [cgi:error] [pid 22448]
>> [client 154.120.230.62:48991] AH01215:
>>          [Mon May 22 09:08:18 2017] circulation.pl:
>> DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::select_single(): Query returned more than one
>> row. SQL that returns multiple rows is DEPRECATED for ->find and
>> ->single at /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Objects.pm line 83, referer:
>> http://aby.com/cgi-bin/koha/circ/circulation.pl
>>
>>  From the little that i understand, the duplicate entry is occurring
>> because that table has reached the upper limit of the auto-increment
>> field (see the first comment in this thread). Therefore, when  a new
>> record is inserted into the table, instead of generating a unique value,
>> it is producing a duplicate key entry.
>>
>> What i think this then does on the client side is that when an item is
>> checked in, instead of a new unique value being created for that
>> particular transaction in the issue/old_issue fields, a duplicate value
>> is generated and assigned to that check-in. The system then thinks that
>> the item has already been checked in, since the supposedly unique value
>> has been generated. The item will then continue showing in the patron's
>> account, even though it's been checked in.
>>
>> Am i correct in my assessment of what is happening?
>>
>> I opened the module that was generating that error
>>
>>          sudo nano -Bu +2179 /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Circulation.pm
>>
>> The lines of code in the section around line 2179 deal with two tables
>> in particular, issues and old_issues;
>>
>>          # FIXME Improve the return value and handle it from callers
>>          $schema->txn_do(sub {
>>          $dbh->do( $query, undef, @bind );
>>          my $id_already_exists = $dbh->selectrow_array(
>>          q|SELECT COUNT(*) FROM old_issues WHERE issue_id = ?|,
>>          undef, $issue_id
>>          );
>>          if ( $id_already_exists ) {
>>          my $new_issue_id = $dbh->selectrow_array(q|SELECT
>> MAX(issue_id)+1 FROM old_issues|);
>>          $dbh->do(
>>          q|UPDATE issues SET issue_id = ? WHERE issue_id = ?|,
>>          undef, $new_issue_id, $issue_id
>>          );
>>          $issue_id = $new_issue_id;
>>          }
>>          $dbh->do(q|INSERT INTO old_issues SELECT * FROM issues WHERE
>> issue_id = ?|, undef, $issue_id);
>>
>> I assumed the problems with the duplicate keys are emanating from these
>> two tables. I tried increasing the index field of the column "issue_id"
>> in both the old_issues and issues tables from INT to BIGINT (in the
>> hopes of increasing the maximum limit of unique keys being generated) by
>> doing the following in MySQL:
>>
>>          mysql> use koha;
>>          mysql> describe old_issues;
>>          mysql> ALTER TABLE old_issues MODIFY issue_id BIGINT UNSIGNED
>> NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT;
>>          mysql> describe issues;
>>          mysql> ALTER TABLE issues MODIFY issue_id BIGINT UNSIGNED NOT
>> NULL AUTO_INCREMENT;
>>
>> However, the problem is still occurring. Can anyone help with an
>> explanation of what is happening and why, and how i can fix it? For now,
>> i'm just going to reinstall my client's database, but i don't think
>> that's going to be a permanent fix since the problem is likely to recur.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Lennon Mazonde
>>
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