[Koha] Problems with Zebra indexing

[Coehoorn, Joel]

I had some other things to do this morning, but I can confirm now that this
has worked for us. Thanks so much!


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On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:01 AM, Robin Sheat <robin at catalyst.net.nz> wrote:

> Op 24/07/13 19:59, Coehoorn, Joel schreef:
> > Okay, I can /usr/sbin/koha_rebuild_zebra to run if I use the -f switch.
> > This makes sense: whatever I did that broke this originally is
> > preventing that from seeing incremental changes.
>
> Yes, you'll need -f. I also recommend -v -v to get a bit more noise
> about what's happening.
>
> Incremental changes should be updated from a cron job that the packages
> install.
>
> > However, this breaks my search again, and there are no results. To get
> > search results back, I have to run the rebuild_zebra.pl
> > <http://rebuild_zebra.pl> script (I know, I know) with sudo. What could
> > be going on here?
>
> By doing a rebuild_zebra with sudo, you've gone and broken your
> permissions again, stopping incremental updating from working. So here's
> what I'd do:
>
> * shut down anything to do with zebrasrv. 'sudo service koha-common
> stop' and some checking with ps to make sure there's nothing still
> running. If there is, figure out where it's coming from and kill it.
> * delete /var/lock/koha
> * delete /var/run/koha
> * delete /var/lib/koha
> * run 'sudo koha-create-dirs library'
> * rebuild everything: 'sudo koha-rebuild-zebra -f -v -v library'
> * start up zebrasrv: 'sudo service koha-common start'
>
> I'm not sure why rebuilding with koha-rebuild-zebra would have stopped
> search from working. If that happens again, I'd suggest diagnosing it
> properly by running zebrasrv from the command line so you get to see all
> the information about what it's doing.
>
> Also note that as a result of deleting /var/lib/koha, you'll need to run
> 'sudo koha-email-enable library' to have email turned back on if you use
> that.
>
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