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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Chris,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks for your help. It was permissions related. My misunderstanding also about having the zebrasrv running from the command line, which wasn’t fired off correctly due to a permissions issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>What is the best way to avoid this in the future? Create the koha user ahead of time, then do the install as that user? Will that work?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Doug<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Chris Nighswonger [mailto:cnighswonger@foundations.edu] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 02, 2011 4:43 PM<br><b>To:</b> Doug Dearden<br><b>Cc:</b> Koha<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Koha] Trouble getting zebra to work<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hi Doug,<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>2011/2/2 Doug Dearden <<a href="mailto:dearden@sarsf.org">dearden@sarsf.org</a>><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hello all,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I am having some trouble getting searches to work using zebra, and am suspicious that I may have caused my problems as I was going through the setup. I have set up a test server on Debian Lenny, using git to download koha. I am planning on doing some work that I hope to contribute back so chose a dev install when I was setting up. The files are in /home/doug/kohaclone and /home/doug/koha-dev . I was logged in as root when I ran the install routine, then changed ownership on all the files to the koha user later. After that, I restored one of my databases from my production server, copied the default koha-conf.xml and edited it to point to the correct database (named ‘image’). I did the same with the koha-httpd.conf file, copying it and editing it where needed. While logged in as “koha”, I would get an error when I tried to run <a href="http://rebuild_zebra.pl" target="_blank">rebuild_zebra.pl</a> . I logged in as root and ran it that way and it didn’t throw the error, but searches aren’t finding anything. I then figured out that the new config files I created had root as the owner. I changed those to have koha as the owner. The <a href="http://rebuild_zebra.pl" target="_blank">rebuild_zebra.pl</a> script would then run without throwing the error. I then read a post that indicated being logged in as root when running <a href="http://rebuild_zebra.pl" target="_blank">rebuild_zebra.pl</a> would mess things up, as certain log files and lock files would get created with root as the owner and koha would not be able to access them. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Any idea where I would find these files? I have several files in /home/doug/koha-dev/var/lock/zebradb/biblios but they are all owned by koha, not root. There is no koha directory in /var/log .<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Check also files under /home/doug/koha-dev/etc/zebradb.<br><br>Koha logs are in /home/doug/koha-dev/var/log<br> <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I don’t know what to expect from <a href="http://rebuild_zebra.pl" target="_blank">rebuild_zebra.pl</a> . I am setting the KOHA_CONF and PERL5LIB variables. If I run “<a href="http://rebuild_zebra.pl" target="_blank">rebuild_zebra.pl</a> –z –a –b” > /home/doug/zlog.txt the script appears to run (the cursor blinks for a bit, then the command prompt returns), and a 0 byte file named zlog.txt is created. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>try './<a href="http://rebuild_zebra.pl">rebuild_zebra.pl</a> -a -b -r -v' for verbose output and to completely rebuild the indexes.<br> <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>If I change the system preferences setting to use the no zebra option, then run <a href="http://rebuild_nozebra.pl" target="_blank">rebuild_nozebra.pl</a> the indexes are built and searches work. Returning the system preferences to use zebra breaks things again.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>nozebra is basically deprecated and unsupported at this point in Koha history. Avoid it like the plague.<br> <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I have a feeling this is an ownership/permissions problem somewhere, either on some files or maybe relating to MySQL. I’m just not sure where to look or how to troubleshoot. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Probably permissions. Something here may be useful too: <a href="http://koha-community.org/documentation/faq/searching/#18">http://koha-community.org/documentation/faq/searching/#18</a><br><br>Kind Regards,<br>Chris<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>