[Koha] software error message - authorities

[Colin Campbell]

On 08/03/11 14:26, Elaine Bradtke wrote:
> I tried to delete an authority record with 0 biblios and got the
> following message:
> Undefined subroutine &C4::AuthoritiesMarc::prepare called at
> /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/AuthoritiesMarc.pm line 720.
> 
> We're running 3.2.5.
> I can't seem to delete any authorities at the moment.
> Any idea what this means, or how we can fix it?
> 
If you look at this line you'll see DelAuthority is calling a
non-existent prepare subroutine it should be calling dbh's prepare method.

There's a recent patch that fixes this bug:

> commit 18faba5e06d2696bd4e99175b1c2208a8512f9d9
> Author: Marcel de Rooy <M.de.Rooy at rijksmuseum.nl>
> Date:   Mon Feb 28 08:30:07 2011 +0000
> 
>     Bug 1953 - Follow up fix on security patch
>     
>     Fixing: Undefined subroutine prepare called on line 722.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Chris Cormack <chrisc at catalyst.net.nz>
>     (cherry picked from commit 439d2224e1215fa876ff7c5a06f773003555a035)
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Chris Nighswonger <chris.nighswonger at gmail.com>
> 
> diff --git a/C4/AuthoritiesMarc.pm b/C4/AuthoritiesMarc.pm
> index 2e10762..6cbe373 100644
> --- a/C4/AuthoritiesMarc.pm
> +++ b/C4/AuthoritiesMarc.pm
> @@ -717,7 +717,7 @@ sub DelAuthority {
>      my $dbh=C4::Context->dbh;
>  
>      ModZebra($authid,"recordDelete","authorityserver",GetAuthority($authid),undef);
> -    my $sth = prepare("DELETE FROM auth_header WHERE authid=?");
> +    my $sth = $dbh->prepare("DELETE FROM auth_header WHERE authid=?");
>      $sth->execute($authid);
>  }



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