bulkmarcimport.pl warning messages

[Bob Ewart]

I'm getting a slew of warnings on every book imported:
use of uninitialized value in pattern match ... C4/Biblio.pm line 2645
use of uninitialized vlaue in addition... C4/Biblio.pm line 2656

An example marc record
=LDR  00589nam  22002051a 4500
=001  23749
=003  flflsla
=010  \\$a82045600
=020  \\$a0806527544
=040  \\$aLibrary of Congress
=050  \4$aML 420 .G253 M5 1983
=100  1\$aMeyer, John
=245  00$aHeartbreaker$cJohn Meyer.
=250  \\$a1st ed.
=260  3\$aNew York$bCitadel Press Books$c1983
=300  \\$a322 p.$c22 cm.
=500  \\$aIncludes index.
=650  \4$aGarland, Judy.
=650  \4$aSingers - United States - Biography.
=952  \\$aSLA$cNonFiction$x17654$d2007-01-04$oML 420 .G253 M5
1983$r2009-06-12$yBOOK$p08065275441$t1

The problem seems to have occured in 3.00.01 and is still present in
3.00.02 running on openSUSE 11.0 and Kubuntu 9.04

I have zebra installed but am not using it.

The warnings don't seem to matter, because the biblios and items are
imported.

Has anyone else seen this?

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[Sébastien Hinderer-2]

Hi,

Bob Ewart (2009/06/17 16:07 -0400):
> I'm getting a slew of warnings on every book imported:
> use of uninitialized value in pattern match ... C4/Biblio.pm line 2645
> use of uninitialized vlaue in addition... C4/Biblio.pm line 2656
[...]
> Has anyone else seen this?

Yes, with a debian unstable and except that a similar system (koha
without zebra). According to a conversation on the chat these warnings
ae binign. Perhaps a bit annoying, though, IMO.

Sébastien.
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[Bob Ewart]

Sébastien Hinderer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Bob Ewart (2009/06/17 16:07 -0400):
>> I'm getting a slew of warnings on every book imported:
>> use of uninitialized value in pattern match ... C4/Biblio.pm line 2645
>> use of uninitialized vlaue in addition... C4/Biblio.pm line 2656
> [...]
>> Has anyone else seen this?
>
> Yes, with a debian unstable and except that a similar system (koha
> without zebra). According to a conversation on the chat these warnings
> ae binign. Perhaps a bit annoying, though, IMO.
>
> Sébastien.

I just installed 3.00.03 and turned off the warnings in Biblio.pm
temporarily.  I'm now seeing a bunch of duplicate barcode warnings.  In
converting from DBText for Libraries we have a number of items without
barcodes since they were not for loan.  I generated barcodes for them,
but my generation algorithm didn't guarantee uniqueness.

My point is that these warnings are not benign. They hide the real
warnings, like duplicate barcodes.  I also added a \r to the beginning
of the error message around line 211 to neaten up the output.



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[Ricardo Dias Marques]

Hi Bob (and List),

On Jun 17, 2009, Bob Ewart <bob-ewart@...> wrote:

>>> I'm getting a slew of warnings on every book imported:
>>> use of uninitialized value in pattern match ... C4/Biblio.pm line 2645
>>> use of uninitialized vlaue in addition... C4/Biblio.pm line 2656
>> [...]
>>> Has anyone else seen this?


And on Mon, Jun 29, 2009, the same Bob Ewart added:

> I just installed 3.00.03 and turned off the warnings in Biblio.pm
> temporarily.  I'm now seeing a bunch of duplicate barcode warnings.  In
> converting from DBText for Libraries we have a number of items without
> barcodes since they were not for loan.  I generated barcodes for them,
> but my generation algorithm didn't guarantee uniqueness.
>
> My point is that these warnings are not benign. They hide the real
> warnings, like duplicate barcodes.  I also added a \r to the beginning
> of the error message around line 211 to neaten up the output.

For what it's worth, I'm getting similar errors when doing a
bulkmarcimport for a .iso file with multiple bibliographic records:

----------------------------------------
#  /usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/bulkmarcimport.pl -d -c UNIMARC
-v -file myrecords.iso

[...]

Use of uninitialized value $1 in addition (+) at
/usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2658, <GEN10> line 900.
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at
/usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2647, <GEN10> line 900.
Use of uninitialized value $1 in addition (+) at
/usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2658, <GEN10> line 900.
.Use of uninitialized value in length at
/usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 3250, <GEN10> line 901.
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at
/usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2647, <GEN10> line 901.
Use of uninitialized value $1 in addition (+) at
/usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2658, <GEN10> line 901.

[...]

1000 MARC records done in 324.597194194794 seconds
----------------------------------------


My setup is Koha 3.0.3, UNIMARC, without Zebra ("NoZebra"), running in
SLES 11 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) that runs Perl 5.10

After running this import using bulkmarcimport, if I do any search in
either the OPAC or in the Intranet, I get the following error message:
----------------------------------------
Error: Can't call method "as_usmarc" on an undefined value at
/usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Search.pm line 2157.
----------------------------------------


I have found this reported bug that may be related:

Bug 1926 - Error on bulk marc import from file (staged)
http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=1926


The only log lines for the relevant time period, for the OPAC, in the
koha-opac-error-log ( in /var/log/koha/ ) are these:
----------------------------------------
[Tue Jun 30 19:30:52 2009] [error] [client 192.168.100.4] [Tue Jun 30
19:30:52 2009] opac-main.pl: PARAM:LOOP:next_loop:hash pointer was
expected but not found at
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i586-linux-thread-multi/HTML/Template/Pro.pm
line 191.
[Tue Jun 30 19:30:57 2009] [error] [client 192.168.100.4] [Tue Jun 30
19:30:57 2009] opac-search.pl: Use of uninitialized value $error in
concatenation (.) or string at
/usr/share/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac/opac-search.pl line 408., referer:
http://myhost.internal/
[Tue Jun 30 19:30:57 2009] [error] [client 192.168.100.4] [Tue Jun 30
19:30:57 2009] opac-search.pl: PARAM:LOOP:next_loop:hash pointer was
expected but not found at
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i586-linux-thread-multi/HTML/Template/Pro.pm
line 191., referer: http://myhost.internal/
----------------------------------------


And the only line for the relevant time period, for the Intranet, in
the koha-error-log ( also in /var/log/koha/ ) is this:
----------------------------------------
[Tue Jun 30 19:36:29 2009] [error] [client 192.168.100.4] [Tue Jun 30
19:36:29 2009] search.pl: networks  at
/usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/catalogue/search.pl line 468.,
referer: http://myhost.internal:8080/cgi-bin/koha/catalogue/search.pl?q=redes
----------------------------------------


Does anyone have any hints or comments regarding this... Please?

Thanks in advance! :)

Cheers,
Ricardo Dias Marques
lists AT ricmarques DOT net
Installation Guide for Installing Koha 3 on openSUSE 11
http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=opensuse_11.0
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[Sébastien Hinderer-2]

Hey,

> After running this import using bulkmarcimport, if I do any search in
> either the OPAC or in the Intranet, I get the following error message:
> ----------------------------------------
> Error: Can't call method "as_usmarc" on an undefined value at
> /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Search.pm line 2157.
> ----------------------------------------

It's probably because you didn't rebuild the search index.
Since you don't have zebra installed, try the rebuild_nozebra script in
migration_tools directory.
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[Ricardo Dias Marques]

Hi Sébastien,

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009, I wrote:

>> After running this import using bulkmarcimport, if I do any search in
>> either the OPAC or in the Intranet, I get the following error message:
>> ----------------------------------------
>> Error: Can't call method "as_usmarc" on an undefined value at
>> /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Search.pm line 2157.
>> ----------------------------------------


And, on the same day, Sébastien Hinderer
<Sebastien.Hinderer@...> replied:

> It's probably because you didn't rebuild the search index.
> Since you don't have zebra installed, try the rebuild_nozebra script in
> migration_tools directory.

Thank you very much! You're absolutely right: I had forgot to run
rebuild_nozebra.pl after running bulkmarcimport.pl.

Maybe it could be useful to change the bulkmarcimport.pl code so that
it prints the "reminder" to run "rebuild_zebra.pl /
rebuild_nozebra.pl" at the end of bulkmarcimport processing?

Sébastien: I think that you should consider changing your family name
from "Hinderer" - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hinder - to "Helpful",
eheh.
Just kidding!  :)

Thanks again!

Cheers,
Ricardo
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[Sébastien Hinderer-2]

Hi Ricardo and all,

> Thank you very much! You're absolutely right: I had forgot to run
> rebuild_nozebra.pl after running bulkmarcimport.pl.

Seems this is a classical pifall...:)

> Maybe it could be useful to change the bulkmarcimport.pl code so that
> it prints the "reminder" to run "rebuild_zebra.pl /
> rebuild_nozebra.pl" at the end of bulkmarcimport processing?

This was briefly discussed on IRC. I have just added it as a
suggested topic for the IRC meeting about to take place.

> Sébastien: I think that you should consider changing your family name
> from "Hinderer" - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hinder - to "Helpful",
> eheh.
> Just kidding!  :)

Well this name might be the result of a bad krma accumulated in past
lives I'm trying to get rid of in the present one.

Cheers,
Sébastien.
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[Sébastien Hinderer-2]

Sébastien Hinderer (2009/07/01 20:04 +0200):
> This was briefly discussed on IRC. I have just added it as a
> suggested topic for the IRC meeting about to take place.

http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=meetingnotes09jul01

Sébasien.
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