[Koha] Biblio appears twice (absolute duplicate down to timestamp and biblio and control numbers)

[Elaine Bradtke]

On further investigation, this seems to be a problem with the link parsing.
I'm not sure how I can get to the bad record, because Koha keeps bringing
up the good record. There appears to be some very small differences, as if
the record was saved in mid edit, and saved again, with the same timestamp
and numbers.  There is a space and 7c after the biblio number in the bad
record.


On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Elaine Bradtke <eb at efdss.org> wrote:

> Koha 3.14.06
>
> Quite a while back we had a problem with duplicate biblios appearing for
> newly added catalogue records.
> But this time it's only one.  It is an exact duplicate of a record that
> had an item added to it (not a new catalogue record).  A search on the
> biblio number returns both records, one says no items, the other has four
> items attached.  However if you click on the record with no items, it shows
> the four items attached, if you click on the "next" button, it shows the
> same record.
> Looking at the MARC in two separate windows, they are absolutely identical
> - time stamp, biblionumber, control number.  This shouldn't be possible.
> I don't know how to fix this, because I can't tell which is the ghost and
> which is the original.   I'm tempted to export the record. Delete both
> copies, and then re import the record.
> We run Koha on a virtual machine, and I hear that there was a reboot over
> the weekend and our test site froze. Production only seems to have suffered
> this one glitch as far as we can tell. Re-indexing didn't seem to help. Is
> there is a particular command we need to use to resolve duplicate biblios?
>
> Any ideas?
> --
> Elaine Bradtke
> Data Wrangler
> VWML
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-- 
Elaine Bradtke
Data Wrangler
VWML
English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org
Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY
Tel    +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance and
Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally, send
an e-mail first. I work off site)
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Registered Company No. 297142
Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999
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"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture"
--Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52)