[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Error receiving serial issuances

[Beth Willis]

For some time, some of our libraries have reported sporadic errors when 
receiving serial issuances.   In the past, I often was able to eliminate 
the errors by editing faulty holding codes.  But, in the most recent 
cases, I don't see any problem with the holding codes.

For example, I have a report from a library of two titles that they 
cannot receive.  Both are annual publications.  I created a test 
subscription for one of the titles using the same caption and pattern 
code that the library used.  I then generated 6 expected issuances. 
When I tried to receive an issuance, I  got the same database error as 
reported by the library.

We use the Serial Control View for receiving.  As of today, we are on 
v.2.3.7.

Subscription details:

Caption/Pattern:

["2","0","8","1","a","Vol.","i","(year)","w","a","x","01"]

Generated 6 expected issances as follows:

Holding Codes:
["4","1","8","1.2","a",63,"i",2012,"x","AUTOGEN"]
["4","1","8","1.3","a",64,"i",2013,"x","AUTOGEN"]
["4","1","8","1.4","a",65,"i",2014,"x","AUTOGEN"]
["4","1","8","1.5","a",66,"i",2015,"x","AUTOGEN"]
["4","1","8","1.6","a",67,"i",2016,"x","AUTOGEN"]
["4","1","8","1.7","a",68,"i",2017,"x","AUTOGEN"]


ERROR MESSAGES:

I received this error today (v.2.3.7)

FIXME:  If you encounter this alert, please inform your IT/ILS helpdesk 
staff or your friendly Evergreen developers.

Thu Jun 13 2013 11:01:07 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

cmd_receive_items failed!

BAD_PARAMS
Invalid parameters were encountered in a method


I received the following error last week while we were still on v.2.2.8:


Network or server failure.  Please check your Internet connection to 
evergreen.noblenet.org and choose Retry Network.  If you need to enter 
Offline Mode, choose Ignore Errors in this and subsequent dialogs.  If 
you believe this error is due to a bug in Evergreen and not network 
problems, please contact your help desk or friendly Evergreen 
administrators, and give them this information:
method=open-ils.serial.receive_items
params=["0091d3e98ea1fd83ae651ddad3f4bd9c",[{"__c":"sitem","__p":[113706,{"__c":"au","__p":[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,"t",null,"f",null,1,0,0,"2012-05-14T15:46:39-0400","0.00",null,"1979-01-22T00:00:00-0500",null,null,"2015-05-14T15:46:39-0400","System 
Account","Administrator",1,1,1,null,"identification",null,"none",null,"t",1,null,"8cbb514d32e37b43ef310752c90b5cb3",null,null,1,null,1,null,"t",1,"noble",null,"f","2012-05-15T10:13:34-0400",null,"f"]},{"__c":"au","__p":[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,"t",null,"f",null,1,0,0,"2012-05-14T15:46:39-0400","0.00",null,"1979-01-22T00:00:00-0500",null,null,"2015-05-14T15:46:39-0400","System 
Account","Administrator",1,1,1,null,"identification",null,"none",null,"t",1,null,"8cbb514d32e37b43ef310752c90b5cb3",null,null,1,null,1,null,"t",1,"noble",null,"f","2012-05-15T10:13:34-0400",null,"f"]},"2013-06-04T11:28:35-0400","2013-06-04T11:28:35-0400",{"__c":"siss","__p":[120364,{"__c":"au","__p":[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,"t",null,"f",null,1,0,0,"2012-05-14T15:46:39-0400","0.00",null,"1979-01-22T00:00:00-0500",null,null,"2015-05-14T15:46:39-0400","System 
Account","Administrator",1,1,1,null,"identification",null,"none",null,"t",1,null,"8cbb514d32e37b43ef310752c90b5cb3",null,null,1,null,1,null,"t",1,"noble",null,"f","2012-05-15T10:13:34-0400",null,"f"]},{"__c":"au","__p":[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,"t",null,"f",null,1,0,0,"2012-05-14T15:46:39-0400","0.00",null,"1979-01-22T00:00:00-0500",null,null,"2015-05-14T15:46:39-0400","System 
Account","Administrator",1,1,1,null,"identification",null,"none",null,"t",1,null,"8cbb514d32e37b43ef310752c90b5cb3",null,null,1,null,1,null,"t",1,"noble",null,"f","2012-05-15T10:13:34-0400",null,"f"]},"2013-06-04T11:28:35-0400","2013-06-04T11:28:35-0400",{"__c":"ssub","__p":[3836,37,"2012-01-01T00:00:00-0500",null,2090279,null]},6748,"Vol.63(2012)","2012-01-01T00:00:00-0500","[\"4\",\"1\",\"8\",\"1.2\",\"a\",63,\"i\",2012,\"x\",\"AUTOGEN\"]","basic",null]},{"__c":"sstr","__p":[4133,4061,"adult"]},"",null,"2012-01-01T00:00:00-0500",null,"Expected",[],"f"]}],{},{},{}]
THROWN:
{"payload":[],"debug":"osrfMethodException :  *** Call to 
[open-ils.serial.receive_items] failed for session 
[1370361124.578537.13703611245542], thread trace [1]:\nCan't calculate 
date change for 10000 Vol. (year) a 01 at 
/usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/OpenILS/Utils/MFHD/Holding.pm line 
471.\n\n","status":500}
STATUS:

If more information is needed, please let me know.

Thanks in advance for any insights into this problem.
Beth
-- 
Beth Willis
Digital & Catalog Librarian
NOBLE, Inc.
26 Cherry Hill Drive
Danvers, MA 01923