Reindexing Zebra Because there are no results found in opac and intranet search in KOHA Integrated Library System - indexing

Question

I have a freshly installed Koha 3.16 in a Debian Server. I already imported the MARC records into the catalog, but when I search it on Opac , there is no results found.
I read this link: My Zebra Indexing won’t work! How do I fix it? (AKA: I search for stuff and nothing comes up! Help!)
I have tried to follow what has been said in this link. But unfortunately Im stuck with the third step.
export PERL5LIB=/usr/share/koha/lib
export KOHA_CONF=/usr/share/koha/koha-conf.xml
/usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -b -r -v -x
I run this commands, but still, no luck. I tried to rebuild zebra using the command:
sudo koha-rebuild-zebra -f -v mylibrary
The result shows:
Zebra configuration information
================================
Zebra biblio directory = /var/lib/koha/mylibrary/biblios
Zebra authorities directory = /var/lib/koha/mylibrary/authorities
Koha directory = /usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin
Lockfile = /var/lock/koha/mylibrary/rebuild/rebuild..LCK
BIBLIONUMBER in : 999$c
BIBLIOITEMNUMBER in : 999$d
================================
skipping authorities
====================
exporting biblio
====================
Records exported: 7922
====================
REINDEXING zebra
====================
18:04:12-13/11 zebraidx(8862) [warn] zebra_lock_create fail fname=/var/lock/koha/mylibrary/biblios/norm..LCK [No such file or directory]
18:04:12-13/11 zebraidx(8862) [warn] zebra_lock_create fail fname=/var/lock/koha/mylibrary/biblios/shadow..LCK [No such file or directory]
18:04:12-13/11 zebraidx(8862) [fatal] Could not select database biblios errCode=109
18:04:12-13/11 zebraidx(8863) [warn] zebra_lock_create fail fname=/var/lock/koha/mylibrary/biblios/norm..LCK [No such file or directory]
18:04:12-13/11 zebraidx(8863) [warn] zebra_lock_create fail fname=/var/lock/koha/mylibrary/biblios/shadow..LCK [No such file or directory]
18:04:12-13/11 zebraidx(8863) [fatal] Could not select database biblios errCode=109
====================
CLEANING
====================
Zebra configuration information
================================
Zebra biblio directory = /var/lib/koha/mylibrary/biblios
Zebra authorities directory = /var/lib/koha/mylibrary/authorities
Koha directory = /usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin
Lockfile = /var/lock/koha/mylibrary/rebuild/rebuild..LCK
BIBLIONUMBER in : 999$c
BIBLIOITEMNUMBER in : 999$d
================================
====================
exporting authority
====================
Records exported: 0
====================
REINDEXING zebra
====================
skipping biblios
====================
CLEANING
====================
Whats wrong with reindexing Zebra? How will I fix it? I found a problem same with me, but honestly I dont get how to apply a Patch.Here's the link:
zebraidx errCode=109
Please fix it. I really have to get this working.

Answer 1

Happened the same when install koha in Centos. Try:
Koha-rebuild-zebra -f -v -b mylibrary
You can use these lines to restart the search tables.
sudo zebraidx -c /etc/koha/sites/library/zebra-biblios.cfg drop biblios
sudo zebraidx -c /etc/koha/sites/library/zebra-biblios.cfg commit
koha-rebuild-zebra -b -r -v mylibrary
Finally: Try to change the parameter SearchEngine in the preferences section. Zebra to Solr.
Other parameters (source):
-f, --full Does a reindex of the whole collection. Will run even if USE_INDEXER_DAEMON=yes.
-a, --authorities Only run the indexing process for authority records.
-b, --biblios Only run the indexing process for biblio records.
-q, --quiet Sometimes be a bit quieter for scripts/cronjobs.
-v, --verbose Be verbose. Useful for debugging indexing problems.

Answer 2

Hi your all previous step looks great
after all the above steps as followed by user till /usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -b -r -v -x looks fine
after that you give the following command
zebrasrv -f /path/to/the.KOHA_CONF file i.e xml file which should run in background process else if you get logout indexing also go off

Answer 3

I have a similar problem, zebraserv seems to exit randomly. The log is not much help, as it does not capture what caused the crash. The symptom is that searches don't work. I found that restarting koha fixes the issue. However restarting all the time is not ideal. Some investigation on my system ( Debian 8.3 with Koha 16.05.05.000 ) reveal that the zebraserv process dying is a symptom of the issue. I wrote this script to be run as a cron job ( for root ) that runs every 60 seconds. This appears to make it recover. It seems to happen once every few days.
This has been happening in the last few releases of koha-common via Debian apt-get
I called it /root/check_zebra.sh ..... it is
:
# Add this to cron i.e ( remove the leading "#" ) for root
# * * * * * /root/check_zebra.sh >> /root/check_zebra.log
#
ps ax | grep zebrasrv | grep koha-conf.xml > /dev/null
status=$?
if [ $status = "0" ]
then
:
else
# Restart
echo "============================================="
date
echo "zebrasrv has stopped. Restarting Koka..."
echo "/etc/init.d/koha-common restart"
/etc/init.d/koha-common restart
fi