Marty,
have you tried to run zebra server from the command line, as explained in the INSTALL file

1.1 Zebra Search Server

This process send responses to search requests sent by Koha or
Z39.50/SRU/SRW clients.

    $ sudo -u ${KOHA_USER} zebrasrv -f /etc/koha/koha-conf.xml
    (note that the path to koha-conf.xml may be different depending on your
    installation choices)

Note: the user you run Zebra as will be the only user with write permission
      on the Zebra index; in development mode, you may wish to use your
      system user.
Perhaps any error could surface in this way

Bernardo


2010/10/25 Marty <ontariowolf64@yahoo.com>
I have tried 'sudo /etc/init.d/koha-zebra-daemon start' which does not give me any errors, but I am also convinced it does NOT start the daemon. As far as I'm concerned, it just echoes a text but does not actually start anything. Why I think zebra is not running:

This is my output on the non-working system:

biblios@debian:~$ ps -ef | grep zebrasrv
biblios 3322 3085 0 11:27 pts/0 00:00:00 grep zebrasrv

This is my output on the working system:

biblios@debian:~$ ps -ef | grep zebrasrv
koha      2325     1  0 11:55 ?        00:00:00 daemon --name=koha-zebra-ctl.koha --errlog=/var/log/koha/koha-zebradaemon.err --stdout=/var/log/koha/koha-zebradaemon.log --output=/var/log/koha/koha-zebradaemon-output.log --verbose=1 --respawn --delay=30 --user=koha koha -- /usr/bin/zebrasrv -v none,fatal,warn -f /etc/koha/koha-conf.xml
koha      3019  2325  0 12:07 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/zebrasrv -v none,fatal,warn -f /etc/koha/koha-conf.xml
biblios   3110  3004  0 12:56 pts/0    00:00:00 grep zebrasrv

Also, I can do a 'sudo /etc/init.d/koha-zebra-daemon restart' on the working system without any problems.

--- On Mon, 10/25/10, Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger@foundations.edu> wrote:

From: Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger@foundations.edu>
Subject: Re: [Koha] No search results again...
To: "Marty" <ontariowolf64@yahoo.com>
Cc: "koha koha" <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz>
Received: Monday, October 25, 2010, 12:09 PM

2010/10/25 Marty <ontariowolf64@yahoo.com>
>
> This is not a good day...
> We have upgraded from 3.00.04 to 3.00.06, after running rebuild_zebra.pl -b -a -z it does not have any search results anymore...
> Tried rebuild_zebra.pl -b -w as well, still no search results...
>
> Things I suspect to be not as they should be:
>
> biblios@debian:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/koha-zebra-daemon restart
> Restarting the Zebra Server
> daemon: fatal: failed to find pid for koha-zebra-ctl.koha: No such file or directory
>
> biblios@debian:~$ ps -ef | grep zebrasrv
> biblios 3322 3085 0 11:27 pts/0 00:00:00 grep zebrasrv
>
> no error messages in log files...
>
>
> What gives? Why? It runs fine on a parallel system but I need this one running!

First just try 'sudo /etc/init.d/koha-zebra-daemon start' to restart zebra.

Once zebra is started do 'rebuild_zebra.pl -r -a -b -v' which will
give you much more info about what might be going wrong.

Kind Regards,
Chris


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