Hey Paul, I do have a long memory for my fellow Canadians. Koha 3.08 was the first version I contributed to back in 2012. I'd be remiss if I didn't say that you should definitely upgrade to a new version of Koha. But with that out of the way...
I think Michael has given some good advice. Overall, it sounds like a case of just having to write debugging code and try to unpick it by hand. Because it sounds super weird that it's not working to add or edit bibs. David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 -----Original Message----- From: Koha-devel <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Paul A via Koha-devel Sent: Wednesday, 1 October 2025 6:42 AM To: Koha Devel <[email protected]> Subject: [Koha-devel] Assistance, please Kia ora, greetings -- from the past, some of you will remember me. Nut shell : we have been running (charitable library, non lending) Koha catalogue since 2011 (v. 3.08.24 since July 2015). Rock solid until we got overwhelmed by DDoS and/or AI bots. Thermal protection on the Koha server (apache2 proxied from nginx) failed, literal meltdown. Built a new server (12 core intel CPU, 64G memory, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS security mods - I know, please don't flame me), reinstalled from tar and backup. Apparently a dead-ringer copy of what we had for over a decade. Public server perfect <https://opac.navalmarinearchive.com>. Mysql, Zebra, Pazpar have reconstituted over a hundred thousand biblios and items - no discernible errors, all public users happy (except hackers and AI bots mitigated at front end nginx.) But ... Koha admin (intranet) works fine for everything (items, reports, logs, "about"...) EXCEPT Biblios won't edit nor write new (manual input, nor z3950) records. ERROR : Can't call method "fields" on an undefined value at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2483. 2482 # traverse through record 2483 MARCFIELD: foreach my $field ( $record->fields() ) { 2484 my $tag = $field->tag(); if elsif .... We've spent nearly a week, finding minor variations in backups of Biblio.pm (occasional line renumbering and developers' signatures), nothing from a Perl logic perspective. We've done the obvious "diff's", permissions, ownerships, restarts, reboots, koha_perl_deps.pl, SAX parser, perl modules, environment. It's got to be something blazingly simple, after a decade of superb Koha service. Any and all assistance in saving my sanity would be truly appreciated, Thanks and warmest regards, Paul _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : https://www.koha-community.org/ git : https://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : https://bugs.koha-community.org/ _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : https://www.koha-community.org/ git : https://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : https://bugs.koha-community.org/
