[Koha] problems with Zebra on Ubuntu 12.04

[Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel]

Linda,

is your zebra daemon running?

Apparently you have rebuild the index correclty, but if your zebra daemon
is not running, your search will find nothing.

B
-- 
Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
bgkriegel at gmail.com



On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Howell, Lynda <Lynda.Howell at myunion.edu>wrote:

> I have Koha 3.8.1 installed and mostly working on Ubuntu 12.04, and have
> created/imported a bunch of records to work with.  The problem I'm having
> is that all searches in the catalog come up with no results.  I can see the
> records I imported in the reservoir, so I know they're there, but Search
> the Catalog finds nothing.
>
> There are several related FAQs at
> http://koha-community.org/documentation/faq/, but I've tried all of the
> suggestions without any luck.
>
> Here's the command I'm currently using to rebuild the index:
>
> sudo -u koha -H env KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/koha-conf.xml
> PERL5LIB=/usr/share/koha/lib /usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/
> rebuild_zebra.pl -b -r -v
>
> The first time I run that, I get a bunch of "[No such file or directory]"
> error messages about /var/lock/koha/zebradb/biblios -- I've checked, and
> there really is no /var/lock/koha directory.  If I create those directories
> (and confirm that the koha user is the owner), I stop seeing error
> messages.  But I still can't search for records.  And I have to keep
> recreating this /var/lock/koha directory and subdirectories -- I think
> they're being deleted when I restart the computer.
>
> I haven't found anywhere that describes what the expected output of
> rebuild_zebra.pl is.  I've been assuming that no news is good news, but
> maybe it's not.  For example, I see it  count out dots for all of my
> records under "exporting biblio", but then it says
>        REINDEXING zebra
>        ==================
>        ==================
>        CLEANING
>        ==================
>
> Without another list of dots (although it pauses between the two lines of
> ===s for several seconds as if it's doing something).  Is that what it's
> supposed to do?
>
> I installed Koha following the instructions at
> http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_Ubuntu.  They were written
> for Koha 3.06 and Ubuntu 11.10, but everything seemed to work as written
> with only one exception.  In Step 1 under Install Koha, the second command
> "make" -- gave me
>        /usr/bin/perl "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/lib" fix-perl-path.PL blib
>        Permission denied at fix-perl-path.PL line 88.
>        make: *** [blib] Error 13
> I changed it to "sudo make", and it worked.  And again with the next
> command -- "make test" didn't work but "sudo make test" did.  I wouldn't
> expect that to cause problems like this.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Lynda Howell.
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