[Koha] bulkmarcimport.pl warning messages

[Ricardo Dias Marques]

Hi Bob (and List),

On Jun 17, 2009, Bob Ewart <bob-ewart at earthlink.net> wrote:

>>> I'm getting a slew of warnings on every book imported:
>>> use of uninitialized value in pattern match ... C4/Biblio.pm line 2645
>>> use of uninitialized vlaue in addition... C4/Biblio.pm line 2656
>> [...]
>>> Has anyone else seen this?


And on Mon, Jun 29, 2009, the same Bob Ewart added:

> I just installed 3.00.03 and turned off the warnings in Biblio.pm
> temporarily.  I'm now seeing a bunch of duplicate barcode warnings.  In
> converting from DBText for Libraries we have a number of items without
> barcodes since they were not for loan.  I generated barcodes for them,
> but my generation algorithm didn't guarantee uniqueness.
>
> My point is that these warnings are not benign. They hide the real
> warnings, like duplicate barcodes.  I also added a \r to the beginning
> of the error message around line 211 to neaten up the output.

For what it's worth, I'm getting similar errors when doing a
bulkmarcimport for a .iso file with multiple bibliographic records:

----------------------------------------
#  /usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/bulkmarcimport.pl -d -c UNIMARC
-v -file myrecords.iso

[...]

Use of uninitialized value $1 in addition (+) at
/usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2658, <GEN10> line 900.
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at
/usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2647, <GEN10> line 900.
Use of uninitialized value $1 in addition (+) at
/usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2658, <GEN10> line 900.
.Use of uninitialized value in length at
/usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 3250, <GEN10> line 901.
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at
/usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2647, <GEN10> line 901.
Use of uninitialized value $1 in addition (+) at
/usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2658, <GEN10> line 901.

[...]

1000 MARC records done in 324.597194194794 seconds
----------------------------------------


My setup is Koha 3.0.3, UNIMARC, without Zebra ("NoZebra"), running in
SLES 11 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) that runs Perl 5.10

After running this import using bulkmarcimport, if I do any search in
either the OPAC or in the Intranet, I get the following error message:
----------------------------------------
Error: Can't call method "as_usmarc" on an undefined value at
/usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Search.pm line 2157.
----------------------------------------


I have found this reported bug that may be related:

Bug 1926 - Error on bulk marc import from file (staged)
http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=1926


The only log lines for the relevant time period, for the OPAC, in the
koha-opac-error-log ( in /var/log/koha/ ) are these:
----------------------------------------
[Tue Jun 30 19:30:52 2009] [error] [client 192.168.100.4] [Tue Jun 30
19:30:52 2009] opac-main.pl: PARAM:LOOP:next_loop:hash pointer was
expected but not found at
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i586-linux-thread-multi/HTML/Template/Pro.pm
line 191.
[Tue Jun 30 19:30:57 2009] [error] [client 192.168.100.4] [Tue Jun 30
19:30:57 2009] opac-search.pl: Use of uninitialized value $error in
concatenation (.) or string at
/usr/share/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac/opac-search.pl line 408., referer:
http://myhost.internal/
[Tue Jun 30 19:30:57 2009] [error] [client 192.168.100.4] [Tue Jun 30
19:30:57 2009] opac-search.pl: PARAM:LOOP:next_loop:hash pointer was
expected but not found at
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i586-linux-thread-multi/HTML/Template/Pro.pm
line 191., referer: http://myhost.internal/
----------------------------------------


And the only line for the relevant time period, for the Intranet, in
the koha-error-log ( also in /var/log/koha/ ) is this:
----------------------------------------
[Tue Jun 30 19:36:29 2009] [error] [client 192.168.100.4] [Tue Jun 30
19:36:29 2009] search.pl: networks  at
/usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/catalogue/search.pl line 468.,
referer: http://myhost.internal:8080/cgi-bin/koha/catalogue/search.pl?q=redes
----------------------------------------


Does anyone have any hints or comments regarding this... Please?

Thanks in advance! :)

Cheers,
Ricardo Dias Marques
lists AT ricmarques DOT net
Installation Guide for Installing Koha 3 on openSUSE 11
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