[Koha] recursion problem with requests.pl

[Chris Nighswonger]

Hi Bryan,

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Bryan Lakatos
<Bryan.Lakatos at mvschool.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I just upgraded from 3.0.0 to 3.0.5 today (running ondebian linux "lenny" that is up to date), and all went well, except oneinfinite recursion loop when giving requests.pl a biblionumber query.
>
> Forexample, in the admin interface (:8080), having searched the catalog,the list of books includes a link to see any holds on each book. Thisis the link:
>
> server:8080/cgi-bin/koha/reserve/request.pl?biblionumber=33769 (with the number changing with each book, of course)
>
> Clickingone of these links starts a request.pl process that maxes out the CPUand never returns a response to the browser. I've waited 30 mins onthis (as I went to grab dinner) and it never finished; I had to killthe request.pl process to end it.
>
> In the apache error.log, these two lines appear for every time I trigger the problem:
>
> [ThuJan 21 21:33:22 2010] Digit.pl: Deep recursion on subroutine"utf8::SWASHNEW" at /usr/share/perl/5.10/utf8_heavy.pl line 251, line 275.
> [Thu Jan 21 21:33:22 2010] Digit.pl: Deeprecursion on subroutine "CGI::Carp::die" at/usr/share/perl/5.10/utf8_heavy.pl line 198,  line 275.
>
> If anyone has any tip or advice for me, I'd greatly appreciate it. THANKS!

I can confirm that this bug exists in 3.00.05, but has been fixed in
the current 3.0.x HEAD. You can grab the latest code by cloning the
main git repo. See this link for how to:
http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:git_usage

Also feel free to jump back on IRC if you get stuck.

Kind Regards,
Chris