[Evergreen-general] MARC batch import not processing uploaded files (in 3.5.1)

[Jason Stephenson]

Hello, all.

Here are a few things to check:

1. If you're using nginx as a proxy, and the upload routinely fails on
large files, check the client_max_body_size parameter in
/etc/nginx/nginx.conf. Ours is set to 25m for 25 megabytes.

2. In /openils/conf/opensrf.xml, lookf for
open-ils.vandelay->app_settings->importer. Make sure that

a. the directory exists,
b. it is hosted on shared storage, and
c. it is accessible on all of your brick heads.

It wouldn't hurt to make sure that it is not full. If it is you can
delete old files and may want to consider setting up a cron job to
routinely remove old files.

3. Check the max_stanza_size in /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.yml. While it is
supposed to no longer be necessary to change this setting because of
chunking and bundling, there are still some places where chunking and
bundling support is incomplete. If the above two options do not work,
you may want to try setting this to 2097152 or higher. You will need to
restart ejabberd, all OpenSRF servers, and Apache after making this change.

HtH,
Jason

On 2/4/21 11:51 AM, Tina Ji wrote:
> 
> I encountered similar issues. It happens randomly with files big or
> small. I could not figure a pattern yet. It does not appear to be a data
> issue.
> 
> 
> 1. Uploading stalled. Sometimes it may finish when trying again with a
> different MatchSet, not always. Sometimes I had to break the file into
> smaller chunks or recompile the file (MARCEdit). Eventually the records
> were uploaded and imported.
> 
> 2. Uploading appears to be complete (100%), but some records are not
> loaded into the queue. I had to count the records in a file and compare
> it with the number of records in a queue every time.
> 
> 3. Importing shows as complete, but some records are not imported.
> Trying to import those records again within the queue never succeed. (I
> encountered another issue here: export non-imported records stopped
> working for me. I am not sure it's a local issue or not yet.
> T00_MANY_REDIRECT). Uploading and importing those few records in a
> separate queue is successful.
> 
> We were on 3.5, then recently rolled up to 3.5.1ish.
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting Trevor Johnson <tjohnson at apls.state.al.us>:
> 
>> Not sure why but this issue happened with us when we upgraded our
>> server to Ubuntu 18.04(bionic). We’re still trying to figure it out.
>>
>> From: Evergreen-general
>> <evergreen-general-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org> on behalf of Linda
>> Jansová <linda.jansova at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: Evergreen Discussion Group
>> <evergreen-general at list.evergreen-ils.org>
>> Date: Thursday, February 4, 2021 at 2:00 AM
>> To: "evergreen-general at list.evergreen-ils.org"
>> <evergreen-general at list.evergreen-ils.org>
>> Subject: [Evergreen-general] MARC batch import not processing uploaded
>> files (in 3.5.1)
>>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> We seem to have an issue with the MARC batch import feature in
>> Evergreen 3.5.1.
>>
>> To make sure it is not caused by data in incorrect format, we have –
>> for testing purposes – used a MARCXML file exported from the same
>> Evergreen instance where we have encountered the issue (the bib record
>> has been exported using the web client MARC batch export feature).
>> This XML file is attached.
>>
>> We have tried to import the file using admin accounts to the following
>> community/test servers:
>>
>>   *   https://demo.evergreencatalog.com/eg/staff/home (3.6.0) – works
>> okay
>>   *   https://bugsquash.mobiusconsortium.org/eg/staff (3.5.0) – works
>> okay
>>   *   our community server
>> https://evergreendemo.jabok.cuni.cz/eg/staff/ (3.5.1) – does not work
>> okay
>>   *   our another test (3.5.1) – does not work okay
>>
>> While when it works okay, the file is processed and all three stages
>> (upload, enqueue and import) progress bars go to a 100 % point, in our
>> 3.5.1 instances we have ended up with the first progress bar. I'm also
>> attaching a screenshot from the Mobius community test server and from
>> ours to clarify what I mean.
>>
>> Using the opensrf log we have been able to find out the cause of the
>> issue as we were getting error messages like this one:
>>
>> [2021-02-01 21:34:29] open-ils.vandelay [ERR
>> :7692:Vandelay.pm:272:1612211178912619] unable to read MARC file
>> /tmp/56feb3dd5296fc1f8e579bdc8b29dca7.mrc
>>
>> These point to the 272nd line of Vandelay.pm
>> (https://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=Evergreen.git;a=blob;f=Open-ILS/src/perlmods/lib/OpenILS/Application/Vandelay.pm;hb=43a802ae2c56c9342bfd3a6a4556292d00760d3e).
>>
>>
>> We are unsure whether it may be a permissions issue (if so, does
>> anyone happen to know a complete list of Evergreen permissions needed
>> for the MARC batch import to run and go through all the stages of data
>> processing?) or something else entirely.
>>
>> Thank you in advance for any advice!
>>
>> Linda
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