Hi Chris, hi Jason
meanwhile Chris answered further [1] but answering Jason's to keep
the thread on this issue together.
My library (evaluating Evergreen) is also struggling with (Vandelay)
authority batch import and I have emailed this list on exactly the
same phenomenon in 1.4.0.6: all fine 'till the actual import and a
progress bar that sits still at 0 % and nothing getting imported.
Chris: here are some results from trying the same on Dan Scott's
1.6.0.0 virtual image [2] on my iMAC as an 1.6 implementation example
and with a small subset of our IISH authority records for the bib
record MARC 100 field; this subset is available as test set in the
Evergreen SVN [3]:
1) at first same story after selecting just one of the authority
records and ask for Import Selected: progress bar sits at 0 % and
just trying Validating or Right Mouse Click in a new bib record in
the 100 field doesn't do anything
2) then I tried "Import all" and all of a sudden it did work and all
17 records got reported as Imported (you have to leave the Batch
Importer and go back to it again and to Inspect Queue etc. to
actually see the change) and trying out in new bib record worked fine
too
3) next trials were first a large set of Authority MARC 400 records
which did upload but *not* import and then a small subset of the
same (someone with SVN access could add that test set - let me know
off list) which did *not* import either: progress bar sitting for
ever at 0 % (and nothing reported as imported)
4) however: at some point I just tried to use it in a new MARC
record and there they were the 400 authority data ??!!
So: a dead progress bar sometimes means "nothing happened", sometimes
it means nothing at all and authority data do find their way into the
database.
I have no clue what causes all this and inspected the Postgres
database log, see no errors (I think) but lack the expertise to
interpret what happens or does not happen at that level.
Vandelay / batch importing authority records seems an unpredictable
roller coaster. Anybody ideas ?
I can send you my Postgres log or ay other of the EG logs.
Repke de Vries, IISH
[1] December first:
"..
Hi Jason,
No, I haven't. I'm just the cataloger at WJU, and Jeff, our IT guy who
did our data migration and Evergreen installation, just accepted a job
elsewhere. Has anyone else had trouble with importing authority records
in 1.4.0.6? Will upgrading to 1.6 solve this?
Thanks,
Chris
.."
[2] Downloadpage http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads.php under
"Other versions of Evergreen software"
[3] called "auth-subset100.mrc" at http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/
browser/trunk/Open-ILS/tests/datasets
Op 1-dec-2009, om 17:24 heeft Jason Etheridge het volgende geschreven:
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Chris Caughey
<ccaug...@jessup.edu> wrote:
We were having trouble using the authority batch import. The
whole process
would move along without incident until it came to the progress
bar. Then
it would sit at 0% and do nothing indefinitely. Last week, we
upgraded to
1.4.0.6, and now the progress bar moves a little bit, but then it
stalls out
again. Our IT department tells me that Evergreen is showing an error
related to “arn_value.” Has anyone else experienced this
problem? If so,
what did you do to fix it?
Hey Chris, did you make any headway on this?
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