[Koha] software error message - authorities

[Elaine Bradtke]

Thanks I filed a bug and was nearly immediately told it duplicates bug
1953 (I did search, but obviously not with the correct terms!)

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Colin Campbell
<colin.campbell at ptfs-europe.com> wrote:
> 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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