2009-03-01T00:03:22 *** rsinger has quit IRC 2009-03-01T00:14:11 *** eby_ has joined #OpenILS-Evergreen 2009-03-01T00:46:38 *** eby_ has quit IRC 2009-03-01T03:04:08 *** natschil has joined #openils-evergreen 2009-03-01T03:38:32 natschil: re: transits, items try to spring to their "circ lib" upon checkin.. and that location is determined by the library associated with the workstation. So for example, if you add an item to an org unit called BR1, and check it from workstation associated with BR2, the item will try to transit to BR1 2009-03-01T03:39:28 that makes sense, thanks 2009-03-01T03:39:42 natschil: for speed improvements on a non-beefy machine, try reducing the number of apache processes. Probably all sorts of tweaks you can do with postgres, but I'm not familiar with them 2009-03-01T03:39:42 ok, so that gives me a slight problem 2009-03-01T03:40:35 phasefx: yeah, I did that, but as not all of my cpu and ram are in use, I thought something might be wrong. I also found that using the -l option to start evergreen really sped up the starting process. 2009-03-01T03:41:16 if you used localhost instead of a fqdn in one specific section of a specific config file, -l is required 2009-03-01T03:42:36 About the transit copy status... The system I am putting evergreen on has both english and arabic books. The books are mainly english, but for arabic students, it would be useful to search for these arabic books. Therefore I setup two branches, one english, one arabic. 2009-03-01T03:43:16 As there is only one computer in the library, I made a third branch : Whole Library, which is the computer's branch. 2009-03-01T03:43:37 Now, when I checkin books on this computer, I get this problem. 2009-03-01T03:43:51 thanks a lot though phasefx: I now understand what the problem is. 2009-03-01T03:44:00 probably better ways to separate those books. Does the language filter in advanced search work? 2009-03-01T03:44:15 could also use shelving/copy locations 2009-03-01T03:45:10 phasefx: yup, I'll try to do that (didn't know there was a language filter). How can I add a shelf? 2009-03-01T03:46:03 there's been thought of making the transit behavior configurable with regards to which org unit an item should spring to outside of hold requests, but no push from stakeholders 2009-03-01T03:46:26 how to add a copy/shelving location? In the staff client, go to Admin -> Local System Admin -> Copy Location Editor 2009-03-01T03:46:54 you'll need to restart any active clients (including the one you use to make the changes) to see the changes 2009-03-01T03:47:41 phasefx: thanks again, you rescued my system :) Do you know where I could find documentation on evergreen on the web, other than the openils-evergreen site? 2009-03-01T03:48:32 various Evergreen libraries have documentation geared toward themselves, but I think all of them are linked to from the wiki (under Community Documentation) 2009-03-01T03:49:14 I looked there, but didn't really find much :( . Is there an initscript for evergreen anywhere? 2009-03-01T03:49:20 Michigan has a huge manual in draft form right now. SITKA and Evergreen Indiana also have good documents 2009-03-01T03:50:10 there's not an official init script, but someone on the mailing list whipped one up once, I believe. Also, one of the vmware images is set to auto-start Evergreen 2009-03-01T03:50:24 ok# 2009-03-01T03:50:31 thanks for the help again. 2009-03-01T03:50:51 the main con to an init script is that if an Evergreen server ever does go down, you probably don't want it coming back up without some recovery procedures 2009-03-01T03:51:29 good point. 2009-03-01T03:52:09 About having multiple branches not being a good idea: how can I delete these branches if I have books in them already? 2009-03-01T03:53:01 you'll want to do some SQL-fu directly with the database to move the books 2009-03-01T03:53:41 update asset.copy set circ_lib = org_id; update asset.call_number set owning_lib = org_id; something like that 2009-03-01T03:53:44 ok, I'll try that ..........erm any scripts somewhere ? 2009-03-01T03:54:05 if it's not many books, you could use the staff client to move them 2009-03-01T03:54:35 phasefx: could I just delete the books (Its only one actually), as I don't quite understand what you are saying :) 2009-03-01T03:55:20 you could, but Evergreen doesn't really delete anything, so your removal of the org would still be blocked 2009-03-01T03:55:36 you'd have to disable a trigger to truly remove that item, I think 2009-03-01T03:56:01 of course, you could just hide the org, and not delete it 2009-03-01T03:56:27 or I could just recreate the entire db .... 2009-03-01T03:56:32 yeap 2009-03-01T03:56:50 by hide, I mean, make it OPACVisible = False 2009-03-01T03:57:36 yeah, but I'd rather not have too much "junk" lying about the system 2009-03-01T03:57:55 I can understand that 2009-03-01T03:58:57 I think I'll just move the library with the book to a sort of "root position", change its name and then delete everything else, if that works 2009-03-01T03:59:32 that could work. Don't forget to run autogen.sh after you tweak the orgs 2009-03-01T04:00:03 yeah, I forgot to run that properly yesterday, and got some, well.. interessting results 2009-03-01T04:00:27 * natschil reminds himself to run autogen every time he changes the org tree... 2009-03-01T04:02:17 alright, way past my bedtime. anything else I can help with before I pass out? 2009-03-01T04:03:17 sorry for keeping you awake, it must be late in america. I added workstations to the Whole Library branch, and now I can't delete that, is there a simple way to move them? 2009-03-01T04:03:47 * natschil sets out to learn SQL 2009-03-01T04:03:57 about 4am over in my part of America 2009-03-01T04:04:19 about 12 in the day here (Sudan) :) 2009-03-01T04:04:42 thanks for all the help, and goodnight. 2009-03-01T04:05:13 you can either delete the workstations in the database (I think in actor.workstation), which might be difficult once there are transactions associated with the workstation, or you could delete the ws_info files on the machines running your staff clients 2009-03-01T04:05:43 if you do the former, the staff client will prompt you to re-register once you log in 2009-03-01T04:05:57 but will the old workstations still be in the database? 2009-03-01T04:06:29 if you go the ws_info route, the workstations will exist in that actor.workstation table 2009-03-01T04:07:42 which is harmless 2009-03-01T04:07:49 ok 2009-03-01T04:08:12 thanks a lot. 2009-03-01T04:08:22 Hope you sleep well. 2009-03-01T04:08:28 np, good luck! 2009-03-01T04:16:46 thanks 2009-03-01T04:38:16 *** natschil has quit IRC 2009-03-01T06:55:00 *** natschil has joined #openils-evergreen 2009-03-01T08:10:38 *** kgs has joined #openils-evergreen 2009-03-01T08:31:48 kgs: thought for next EGCon - have a "request for proposals" so that the prospective audience could indicate their interest in specific topics, which might generate more proposals from would-be presenters 2009-03-01T08:32:08 dbs sounds good 2009-03-01T08:32:53 though honestly, we're getting very good proposals 2009-03-01T08:33:11 kgs: dunno if you've got plenty of submissions or not, but I haven't submitted anything largely because I don't have a good feel for audience interest intersection with my skills 2009-03-01T08:33:17 oh, well that's good to hear :) 2009-03-01T08:34:26 dbs I actually floated that idea but then relaxed and thought, it doesn't have to be like Access or C4L to be good 2009-03-01T08:34:41 feel free to go ahead and propose anyway 2009-03-01T08:35:49 there are three tracks and whatever you submit is bound to fit well somewhere 2009-03-01T08:36:44 also as soon as the conference ends we will open the call for 2010 sites... keep that in mind too :) 2009-03-01T08:41:09 also dbs I can't imagine anything you'd propose not being of great interest to a lot of folks 2009-03-01T08:41:35 "translate-toolkit and U" 2009-03-01T08:42:18 that sounds great!!! 2009-03-01T08:42:40 please submit... it would be terrific 2009-03-01T08:44:04 dbs at some point I'd like to pluck your brain about http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=documentation:setting_up_docbook_transforms 2009-03-01T08:44:39 heh, I was actually kidding about that - pretty niche audience, I would suspect 2009-03-01T08:45:10 yeah. I'm actually recovering from (minor) surgery but we should make a date for that next week 2009-03-01T08:45:40 oh my! feel better 2009-03-01T08:46:32 translations would fit very well -- we have some int'l proposals and I think you'd get a nice cross-section of people there 2009-03-01T08:46:46 I'd love to be walked through it 2009-03-01T08:47:11 you know the difference between major and minor surgery: whether it's happening to you ;) 2009-03-01T08:56:18 feel better dbs! 2009-03-01T08:56:38 thanks kgs :) 2009-03-01T08:57:16 I'll leave a program slot for you no matter what... ;) 2009-03-01T09:07:24 *** kgs has quit IRC 2009-03-01T09:09:35 *** eby_ has joined #OpenILS-Evergreen 2009-03-01T09:13:33 *** eby_ has quit IRC 2009-03-01T10:32:29 *** rsinger has joined #OpenILS-Evergreen 2009-03-01T10:44:19 *** rsinger has quit IRC 2009-03-01T11:00:38 *** rsinger has joined #OpenILS-Evergreen 2009-03-01T11:35:22 *** rsinger has quit IRC 2009-03-01T11:40:19 *** eby_ has joined #OpenILS-Evergreen 2009-03-01T12:13:27 *** phase_bb2 has quit IRC 2009-03-01T12:31:27 *** dbs has quit IRC 2009-03-01T14:17:55 *** rsinger has joined #OpenILS-Evergreen 2009-03-01T14:31:17 *** asmodai_ has joined #OpenILS-Evergreen 2009-03-01T14:38:29 *** asmodai has quit IRC 2009-03-01T14:38:29 *** asmodai_ is now known as asmodai 2009-03-01T14:39:19 *** rsinger has quit IRC 2009-03-01T14:40:37 *** rsinger has joined #OpenILS-Evergreen 2009-03-01T14:44:44 *** asmodai has quit IRC 2009-03-01T14:45:52 *** asmodai has joined #OpenILS-Evergreen 2009-03-01T14:52:12 *** rsinger_ has joined #OpenILS-Evergreen 2009-03-01T14:55:21 *** rsinger_ has joined #OpenILS-Evergreen 2009-03-01T15:09:08 *** rsinger_ has quit IRC 2009-03-01T15:09:54 *** lisppaste6 has quit IRC 2009-03-01T15:17:14 *** lisppaste6 has joined #openils-evergreen 2009-03-01T15:41:30 Hi, I have a problem with evergreen. I did a fresh install of evergreen, but when I try to add a book using z39.50, several things happen: Firstly, the z39.50 client cannot find any books (on anything, even searching for very well known authors fails ), every time I get "0 records found" The same hapens when I use the OCLC WorldCat search. Then, when this fails I tried to add a book using raw MARC. I load the K_book template, add some random 2009-03-01T15:41:31 data, import into the library and get following error: http://paste.lisp.org/display/76271. The staff client doesn't crash though, and when I continue to "holdings maintainance", all of the original example libraries are shown. Does anyone know what the problem might be? 2009-03-01T15:42:44 I've run autogen.sh after changing the orgtree, but I still get these errors. Furthermore, reinstalling evergreen doesn't help, as I've tried that a lot of times already 2009-03-01T15:43:00 Does anyone know where the problem might be ? 2009-03-01T15:44:14 natschil: you running windows or linux staff client? Search the wiki for debug console. See if you can paste some output from that when you replicate the error 2009-03-01T15:45:08 phasefx: before this time, I used a windows staff client, but now am using a linux one. 2009-03-01T15:47:39 I can replicate the error by simply just loading a record in the staff client 2009-03-01T15:50:20 and I'll post the end of the debug console 2009-03-01T15:51:17 natschil pasted "debug console" at http://paste.lisp.org/display/76338 2009-03-01T15:54:56 hope that helps 2009-03-01T15:55:13 I'll try restarting evergreen and then trying again as well. 2009-03-01T15:57:17 its really annoying... every time I reinstall evergreen I get another set of errors :) then I reinstall again, and I get more errors ... 2009-03-01T15:58:35 re-installing isn't the normal way to fix problems with Evergreen :) 2009-03-01T16:03:41 phasefx: yeah, but as I've tried to end up with a system that has as few errors and junk as possible, I decided that reinstalling might do the job :) 2009-03-01T16:04:03 anyway, do you have any suggestions to what might be wrong? 2009-03-01T16:11:11 power went out here; snow. I'd take a look and see what the home_ou is for the row in actor.usr where id = 2 2009-03-01T16:11:29 learned any sql-foo yet? 2009-03-01T16:11:54 select home_ou from actor.usr where id = 2; 2009-03-01T16:12:24 then replace ? with the value from home_ou in this next query: select * from actor.org_unit where id = ?; 2009-03-01T16:13:08 I'd expect referential integrity there, but... I'm at a loss otherwise to explain what's going on 2009-03-01T16:13:47 have you restarted your staff client after changing org units and running autogen? 2009-03-01T16:13:48 phasefx: well, didn't learn much sql foo yet, but a bit... 2009-03-01T16:14:36 yeah, I restarted the staff client a few times... 2009-03-01T16:15:18 data.hash.aou is supposed to contain all the org units.. and creator.home_ou() is supposed to give an id for an org unit 2009-03-01T16:15:48 but the error is saying that data.hash.aou does not contain an org unit with an id of whatever the value from creator.home_ou() is 2009-03-01T16:17:51 sorry, clumsy little me disconnected the server's power supply by accident, so I'm just restarting the server, but I'll do as you said in a moment 2009-03-01T16:20:24 could this be related to the fact the z39.50 marc importing isn 2009-03-01T16:20:29 't working, or not 2009-03-01T16:34:40 it's more likley that the z39.50 problems are another symptom of whatever is wrong, and not a cause 2009-03-01T16:39:27 *** kgs has joined #openils-evergreen 2009-03-01T16:39:45 phasefx: yeah, that's what I meant. 2009-03-01T16:40:45 *** rsinger has joined #OpenILS-Evergreen 2009-03-01T16:41:35 natschil: what happens if you create a record using Cataloging -> Create New MARC ? 2009-03-01T16:47:30 phasefx: sorry, I'm having internet ussues with the server... 2009-03-01T16:48:00 well, I did that and created a new marc, added a little bit of data in random parts of the marc, and then imported the record... and I got this error 2009-03-01T16:53:44 same error you say? I'd start tailing all the log files (tail -f /openils/var/log/*) and the postgres log (not sure where this would be on your system), reproduce an error, and see if you get more useful info or additional errors in the logs 2009-03-01T16:59:02 phasefx: running those sql commands gave me the ou of a branch that I made, which seemed alright. 2009-03-01T17:05:05 I just added a workstation to test the server again, which gave me an error "Type error: branch not recognised" or something along those lines 2009-03-01T17:05:30 sorry ("typeError: branch has no properties") 2009-03-01T17:05:59 after which it tries to register the workstation, which doesn't really work 2009-03-01T17:07:46 about what you said earlier about creator.home_ou() giving the id for a org unit... I remember the first time I got that error, I was logged in as admin, and I saw that on the "creator of the record" part of the record view, admin was called (CONS), which was the wrong setting. Back then running autogen fixed the issue, but sadly I didn't keep the installation because of the errors I mentioned this morning 2009-03-01T17:10:06 anyway, I think I have to go now, as its getting late over here... 2009-03-01T17:10:42 *** kgs has quit IRC 2009-03-01T17:10:58 I sent an email about this issue to the devel mailing list, so if you come upon any suggestions on what to do, I'd be really grateful 2009-03-01T17:13:22 *** kgs has joined #openils-evergreen 2009-03-01T17:14:01 *** lmcfarland has quit IRC 2009-03-01T17:14:12 ok, I did cat /openils/var/log/*.log |grep err, and it teöös ,e "We lost the last node in the class, responding with errors and removing" from the router 2009-03-01T17:14:52 *** phasefx has quit IRC 2009-03-01T17:14:58 I meant: "it tells me:" 2009-03-01T17:18:21 *** sboyette has quit IRC 2009-03-01T17:21:02 anyway, thanks for all the help, hope you find out what the issue was 2009-03-01T17:21:53 *** natschil has quit IRC 2009-03-01T17:46:36 *** sboyette has joined #openils-evergreen 2009-03-01T18:27:13 *** dbs has joined #openils-evergreen 2009-03-01T18:29:14 phasefx: trunk client runs pretty well with xulrunner 1.9 on the n810 2009-03-01T18:30:29 a few problems with conflicting keymappings (F6 appears to be reserved for window maximize/minimize on the n810) 2009-03-01T18:31:07 but the interface scales better than it does to my 1024x768 laptop 2009-03-01T18:32:24 now... to find a barcode scanner with a mini-USB interface :) 2009-03-01T18:57:18 bluetooth? :) 2009-03-01T19:00:04 *** lmcfarland has joined #openils-evergreen 2009-03-01T19:00:33 jeff: heh, maybe 2009-03-01T19:02:57 especially fun seeing the french interface and all dojo stuff working fine on it 2009-03-01T19:03:22 poor little 128mb device! 2009-03-01T19:06:36 quick. jam two bluebooth barcode scanners and an n810 in a dropbox and you can sell it for $35k! 2009-03-01T19:07:52 it's an "inventory assistant" 2009-03-01T19:11:35 *** kgs has quit IRC 2009-03-01T19:17:31 *** brittleklutz_ is now known as skmurphy 2009-03-01T20:14:29 *** phase_bb has joined #openils-evergreen 2009-03-01T20:52:31 *** phase_bb has quit IRC 2009-03-01T20:58:52 *** phase_bb has joined #openils-evergreen 2009-03-01T21:03:56 *** rsinger has joined #OpenILS-Evergreen 2009-03-01T21:11:39 *** rsinger has quit IRC 2009-03-01T21:12:30 *** dbs has quit IRC 2009-03-01T21:13:12 *** phasefx2 has quit IRC 2009-03-01T21:13:26 *** phasefx2 has joined #openils-evergreen 2009-03-01T22:47:58 *** rsinger has joined #OpenILS-Evergreen 2009-03-01T23:10:05 *** dbs has joined #openils-evergreen