[Koha] Introduction / Problem with bulk import

[Barton Chittenden]

Markus,

First, welcome to the Koha community. There's also a German mailing list,
Katrin or Mirko can point you in the right direction if you're more
comfortable _mit Deutsch_ although your English seems quite good.

In terms of the error message that you're seeing, MARC::File::XML isn't
actually part of the Koha distribution, which makes it difficult to tell
what's happening just from the error message itself.

I can't remember if this mailing list allows attachments -- you can try
attaching the marcxml files as long as they're not too large, otherwise
upload them somewhere public and send us a link. We'll also need the
command line arguments that you used.

I would also suggest running bulkmarcimport.pl with the -v2 flag enabled --
this will give you verbose output, which might be useful for
trouble-shooting.

Cheers, Gruesse, usw.

--Barton

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 3:04 AM, Markus Becker <beckmarkus at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Koha-community!
>
> - First i want to apologize that my English is a little bit rusty ...
>
> - Second, i want to introduce myself:
>
> My name ist Markus Becker, living in Duisburg, Germany. On the one
> hand i am head librarian of the Ministry of Home Affairs
> Northrine-Westfalia in Düsseldorf, on other hand i am a student of
> ,,Bibliotheksinformatik'' (Library Computer Science) at the Wildau
> Institute of Technology.
>
> For my Master Thesis i want to take a deeper look on Koha, trying to
> proof, that Koha is an possible LMS for the governmental libraries in
> Northrine-Westfalia.
>
> - Third, i have a problem with the bulk-import of MARC21XML-Records to
> Koha and i hope, someone can give me a little hint (technical details
> of the Koha-installation below):
>
> When i try to import the MARC21XML-File with the bulkmarcimport.pl via
> console (following
> http://kohageek.blogspot.de/2016/05/bulk-marc-import-
> using-command-line.html),
> i get the following error:
>
> > ..Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
> > /usr/share/perl5/MARC/File/XML.pm line 397, <GEN46> chunk 5.
> >
> > 2 MARC records done in 0.16786003112793 seconds
>
> The 2 MARC records were *not* imported.
>
> The error is occurring with MARC21XML-files created with my own
> conversion-script and with files exported from Koha itself.
>
> Any hints for me?
>
> Thank You very much in advance,
> Markus
>
>
>
>
> Technical details of my Koha-installation:
> (Running in a Virtual Box)
> Koha-Version:     17.11.00.000
> OS Version ('uname -a'):     Linux debian 4.9.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian
> 4.9.65-3+deb9u1 (2017-12-23) x86_64
> Perl Interpreter:     /usr/bin/perl
> Perl-Version:     5.024001
> Perl @INC:     /usr/share/koha/lib
> /etc/perl
> /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.24.1
> /usr/local/share/perl/5.24.1
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.24
> /usr/share/perl5
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.24
> /usr/share/perl/5.24
> /usr/local/lib/site_perl
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base
> MySQL-Version:     mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.1.26-MariaDB, for
> debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.2
> Apache-Version:     Server version: Apache/2.4.25 (Debian)
> Zebra 2.0.59 (C) 1994-2014, Index Data Zebra is free software, covered
> by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it
> and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. SHA1 ID:
> c00bfddbf0f3608340d61298acc61dafb167f9b2 Using ICU
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