[Koha] search quits working

Tomas Cohen Arazi tomascohen at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 02:55:05 NZST 2016 

Maybe we should tweak koha-stop-zebra so it returns when zebra is
completely off, so people don't need to tweak their logrotate files.

El mar., 2 ago. 2016 a las 11:47, Philippe Blouin (<
philippe.blouin at inlibro.com>) escribió:

> (sorry, jumping into the thread)
>
> We've had this problem on 10% of our installations.  I solved it by
> going nuclear with logrotate since that was really hurting the users to
> not have zebra working (it would appear like working on our monitor, but
> was actually just dying and restarting).
>
> Here is the postrotate I've end up with, after many iterations of Next
> Level Apocalypse You :)
>
>      postrotate
>          service apache2 reload
>          find /etc/init.d/ -name "*zebra-daemon" -exec bash -c 'service
> "$(basename "$0")" stop' {} \;
>          sleep 3
>          find /etc/init.d/ -name "*zebra-daemon" -exec bash -c 'service
> "$(basename "$0")" stop' {} \;
>          sleep 3
>          pkill -9 zebra
>          sleep 2
>          pkill -9 zebra
>          sleep 2
>          find /etc/init.d/ -name "*zebra-daemon" -exec bash -c 'service
> "$(basename "$0")" start' {} \;
>      endscript
>
> As you see, no subtlety, but I've had no problem for a year now...
>
> Philippe Blouin,
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>
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> On 08/02/2016 10:08 AM, Scott Owen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm finally getting back to my Koha issues.....
> >
> >
> > "I'm going to test adding a line
> >
> > /bin/sleep 5
> >
> > as first command in postrotate in logrotate.d/koha-common. I'll see
> > tomorrow."
> >
> > Nombre, did this work for you ??
> >
> > or is the issue maybe fixed in the latest release ??
> >
> >
> > -S
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 7:52 AM, Nombre <d0a10 at yahoo.es> wrote:
> >
> >> El 21/07/16 a las 14:55, Marcel de Rooy escribió:
> >>> Bug 16885 ?
> >> I'm going to test adding a line
> >>
> >> /bin/sleep 5
> >>
> >> as first command in postrotate in logrotate.d/koha-common. I'll see
> >> tomorrow.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>
> >>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> >>> Van: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] Namens Tomas Cohen
> >> Arazi
> >>> Verzonden: donderdag 21 juli 2016 14:27
> >>> Aan: Scott Owen <sowen at edzone.net>; Paul A <
> >> paul.a at navalmarinearchive.com>
> >>> CC: koha <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
> >>> Onderwerp: Re: [Koha] search quits working
> >>>
> >>> I blame logrotate.
> >>>
> >>> El jue., 21 jul. 2016 a las 9:12, Scott Owen (<sowen at edzone.net>)
> >> escribió:
> >>>> Sorry....
> >>>> Debian, latest version of Koha.
> >>>>
> >>>> problem *seems* to have only started when I updated to the latest Koha
> >>>> version.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 3.22.06.000
> >>>> Linux hskoha 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-2
> >>>> (2016-04-08)
> >>>> i686
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> The issue seems to be with the zebra server somehow coming to a halt,
> >>>> and bailing.....seemingly @ approx. 7:35 daily.
> >>>>
> >>>> a quick command of " koha-start-zebra <instance> " makes things
> >>>> all-good.....and I can search again.
> >>>>
> >>>> However, within a couple of days....the zebra server appears to die
> >> again.
> >>>> I have two servers, both at exactly the same rev. and they are both
> >>>> exhibiting this behavior. Starting to look at some of the cron.daily
> >>>> commands.....they seem the most likely suspect (in my eyes)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> cron.daily -->>
> >>>>
> >>>> #!/bin/sh
> >>>> # /etc/cron.daily/koha-common -- Daily housekeeping tasks for all
> Kohas.
> >>>> # Copyright 2010  Catalyst IT, Ltd
> >>>> #
> >>>> # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
> >>>> # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> >>>> # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or #
> >>>> (at your option) any later version.
> >>>> #
> >>>> # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, #
> >>>> but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of #
> >>>> MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the # GNU
> >>>> General Public License for more details.
> >>>> #
> >>>> # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License #
> >>>> along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
> >>>>
> >>>> koha-foreach --enabled --email /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/
> >>>> overdue_notices.pl -t koha-foreach --enabled
> >>>> /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/fines.pl
> >>>> koha-foreach --enabled --email /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/
> >>>> advance_notices.pl -c koha-foreach --enabled
> >>>> /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/membership_expiry.pl
> >>>> -c
> >>>> koha-foreach --enabled /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/holds/
> >>>> cancel_expired_holds.pl >/dev/null 2>&1 koha-foreach --enabled
> >>>> /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/services_throttle.pl > /dev/null 2>&1
> >>>> koha-foreach --enabled
> >>>> /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/cleanup_database.pl --sessions
> >>>> --zebraqueue 10 --list-invites koha-foreach --enabled --noemail
> >>>> /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/ cleanup_database.pl --mail koha-foreach
> >>>> --enabled /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/holds/
> >>>> auto_unsuspend_holds.pl > /dev/null 2>&1 koha-foreach --enabled
> >>>> /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/automatic_renewals.pl
> >>>> koha-run-backups --days 2 --output /var/spool/koha
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 6:41 PM, Paul A
> >>>> <paul.a at navalmarinearchive.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> At 10:20 AM 7/20/2016 -0400, Scott Owen wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Hi all,
> >>>>>> I'm having some issues with Koha searching from both the OPAC and
> >>>>>> the staff Intranet.
> >>>>>> I have tried several solutions for reindexing etc...
> >>>>>> including
> >>>>>> ---Koha-rebuild-zebra -f -v -b mylibrary and ---export
> >>>>>> PERL5LIB=/usr/share/koha/lib ---export
> >>>>>> KOHA_CONF=/usr/share/koha/koha-conf.xml
> >>>>>> ---perl /usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -b -r
> >>>>>> -v -run-as-root
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> You don't say which version of Koha, nor what o/s you are using.
> >>>>> Assuming Debian/Ubuntu, what does printenv give you? You should see
> >>>>> something like (amongst other lines):
> >>>>>
> >>>>> me at my_server:/$ printenv
> >>>>> PERL5LIB=/usr/share/koha/lib
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr
> >>>> /local/lib/perl
> >>>>> KOHA_CONF=/usr/share/koha/koha-conf.xml
> >>>>> KOHA_PATH=/usr/share/koha
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'm also a little surprised by your "-run-as-root" -- in slightly
> >>>>> older versions of Koha, this was a "no-no", but may well have
> >>>>> changed
> >>>> (mpm-itk?)
> >>>>> There is also something I noticed in further emails:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> your zebra error logs.
> >>>>> [snip]
> >>>>>> 20160713 07:36:11 dlpms-koha-zebra: client (pid 526) killed by
> >>>>>> signal
> >>>>> 15, stopping
> >>>>>> 20160713 07:40:07 dlpms-koha-zebra: client (pid 10116) killed by
> >>>>>> signal
> >>>>> 15, stopping
> >>>>>
> >>>>> What were the 9590 processes in the <4 minutes? That log entry would
> >>>>> certainly get my attention.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Best -- P.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> none of these commands produce any errors, however, they also do not
> >>>>> fix
> >>>>>> the issue.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> A reboot of the VM will cause the "search" to work again for a day
> >>>>>> or two....??
> >>>>>> (I know....."it shouldn't make a difference" ...but it
> >>>>>> does...!?!?!?)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I'm unsure of exactly where to start troubleshooting ???
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Any advise on where to begin ??
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> -S
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