[Koha] Cannot find records created in KoHa

[Michael Kuhn]

Hi Patric

 >> Reading your original e-mail again: "I just created my first record
 >> with some items. Among other things I filled in the field "Number
 >> (ISBN)” with 100.100.
 >>
 >> Using the advanced catalog search I’m trying to find my record, but
 >> nothing is found:
 >>
 >> No results match your search for 'nb: 100.100'."
 >>
 >> Can you search (and find) something else than "nb: 100.100" and you
 >> will find the record or won't you find it at all, not even if you
 >> search for author name, for example?
 >
 > No, this didn’t work neither.

It seems like you don't have an index that you could search. You should 
probably build one.

 >> If you don't find anything at all: Did you ever successfully create
 >> the Zebra index? Maybe you got some user permissions problem - test
 >> it with:
 >>
 >> # INSTANZ=yourKohaInstance
 >> # ls -al /var/lib/koha/$INSTANZ/{authorities,biblios}/*
 >> # ls -al /var/lock/koha/$INSTANZ/{authorities,biblios,rebuild}
 >>
 >> All these directories and files need to be owned by Linux user
 >> "$INSTANZ-koha" and "$INSTANZ-koha”.
 >
 > These rights seem to be correct, same user and group as the daemons.

As I see in your last post you only have three processes running:

  1445 ?        S      0:00 daemon --name=ausleihe-test-koha-zebra 
--pidfiles=/var/run/koha/ausleihe-test/ 
--errlog=/var/log/koha/ausleihe-test/zebra-error.log 
--output=/var/log/koha/ausleihe-test/zebra-output.log --verbose=1 
--respawn --delay=30 --user=ausleihe-test-koha.ausleihe-test-koha -- 
/usr/bin/zebrasrv -v none,fatal,warn -k 1024 -f 
/etc/koha/sites/ausleihe-test/koha-conf.xml

   1447 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/bin/zebrasrv -v none,fatal,warn -k 
1024 -f /etc/koha/sites/ausleihe-test/koha-conf.xml

   1688 ?        S      0:00 daemon --name=ausleihe-test-koha-indexer 
--errlog=/var/log/koha/ausleihe-test/indexer-error.log 
--stdout=/var/log/koha/ausleihe-test/indexer.log 
--output=/var/log/koha/ausleihe-test/indexer-output.log 
--pidfiles=/var/run/koha/ausleihe-test/ --verbose=1 --respawn --delay=30 
--user=ausleihe-test-koha.ausleihe-test-koha -- 
/usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -daemon -sleep 5

I don't know the command you got these lines from, but however "ps -ef | 
grep zebra" gives the following in my Koha demo installation:

sandkas+   651     1  0 Jun01 ?        00:00:00 daemon 
--name=sandkasten-koha-zebra --pidfiles=/var/run/koha/sandkasten/ 
--errlog=/var/log/koha/sandkasten/zebra-error.log 
--output=/var/log/koha/sandkasten/zebra-output.log --verbose=1 --respawn 
--delay=30 --user=sandkasten-koha.sandkasten-koha -- /usr/bin/zebrasrv 
-v none,fatal,warn -f /etc/koha/sites/sandkasten/koha-conf.xml

sandkas+   653   651  0 Jun01 ?        00:00:01 /usr/bin/zebrasrv -v 
none,fatal,warn -f /etc/koha/sites/sandkasten/koha-conf.xml

sandkas+  1205     1  0 Jun01 ?        00:00:00 daemon 
--name=sandkasten-koha-indexer 
--errlog=/var/log/koha/sandkasten/indexer-error.log 
--stdout=/var/log/koha/sandkasten/indexer.log 
--output=/var/log/koha/sandkasten/indexer-output.log 
--pidfiles=/var/run/koha/sandkasten/ --verbose=1 --respawn --delay=30 
--user=sandkasten-koha.sandkasten-koha -- 
/usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -daemon -sleep 5

sandkas+  1206  1205  0 Jun01 ?        00:00:45 /usr/bin/perl 
/usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -daemon -sleep 5

sandkas+ 16720   653  0 18:51 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/zebrasrv -v 
none,fatal,warn -f /etc/koha/sites/sandkasten/koha-conf.xml

As you see there are two processes more than in your installation. Maybe 
you should just restart Zebra or if you don't know how, restart all of 
Koha (including Zebra), or restart your host with everything (including 
Koha, Zebra and the rest).

 > I just saw that somebody introduced some frameworks that do not
 > include the field "000  - Record Label”. This field is needed to
 > create a correct record in koha, right?

The following MARC fields are "mandatory" by default: LEADER ("000" in 
the Koha framework) 003 008 040$c 245$a 942$c - in the framework they 
are marked with a very small red asterisk. Whatever "mandatory" means:

I tried to destroy a framework like you have one - exporting the 
standard framework, importing it as a new framework TEST, then deleting 
the MARC LEADER ("000"). In Koha menu "Administration > MARC 
Bibliographic framework test" it still says for this mutilated 
framework: "Configuration OK, you don't have errors in your MARC 
parameters table". This seems like some kind of higher nonsense to me.

Interestingly enough even without the "mandatory" MARC LEADER ("000") in 
the framework a test record can be saved - it will then just insert some 
default values (as can be seen in the "MARC view"). However, as said, 
such a record can be saved and also be searched. See 
http://koha.adminkuhn.ch/cgi-bin/koha/opac-MARCdetail.pl?biblionumber=469 
(but only until about 04:00 AM tomorrow)

So the mutilated framework is probably not the initial reason for your 
problem. Still, I wouldn't ever advise to delete the MARC LEADER in any 
framework. As I wrote above, I assume you don't have a (correct) Zebra 
index at all.

Hope this helps.

Best wishes: Michael
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