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    Course Reserves stops; "Enviroment Table needs more than 1000 lines"

    • Article Type: General
    • Product: Aleph
    • Product Version: 18.01

    Description:
    Since last night our Course Reserves module is consistently unavailable. I have re-started the web server countless times today to try and keep it up, but to no avail. The OPAC is not affected but users consistently cannot log in to the course reserves module.

    Either nothing happens at all when you try and get in or you get the error:

    Not Found The requested URL /&server_staff/file/s-main-1 was not found on this server

    or the error:

    The requested file was not found on the server. Please contact the library administration and inform them about this problem.

    I see the following error in the www_server.log but don't know what it means or if it's related to the course reserves going down:
    WWW-F : FULL-SET-SET
    Enviroment Table needs more than 1000 lines
    Enviroment Table needs more than 1000 lines
    Enviroment Table needs more than 1000 lines
    Enviroment Table needs more than 1000 lines
    Enviroment Table needs more than 1000 lines
    <etc.>

    Resolution:
    <From Jerry:>

    On Tuesday I added displays to the program which builds the "Enviroment table". A sample -- from the www_server__4991.log -- can be seen below.

    As we can see, it is including &rsquo; &ldqou; &rdquo; and, especially &gt; --

    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000166
    ENV-NAME= rsquo;Eugenio
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000168
    ENV-NAME= rsquo;histoire
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000170
    ENV-NAME= rsquo;Hom?¨re
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000172
    ENV-NAME= rsquo;abolition
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000174
    ENV-NAME= rsquo;esclavage
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000176
    ENV-NAME= rsquo;un
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000178
    ENV-NAME= rsquo;d
    ...
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000152
    ENV-NAME= gt;(OCoLC)ocm21670185
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000154
    ENV-NAME= gt;AED9949
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000156
    ENV-NAME= gt;(OCoLC)ocm07843282
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000158
    ENV-NAME= gt;AEB6127
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000160
    ENV-NAME= gt;(OCoLC)ocm02270773
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000162
    ENV-NAME= gt;(OCoLC)ocm00419736
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000164
    ENV-NAME= gt;(GRSN)00068004
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000166
    ENV-NAME= gt;AAK1763
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000168
    ENV-NAME= gt;(OCoLC)ocm00181264
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000170
    ENV-NAME= gt;(GRSN)00070611
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000172
    ENV-NAME= gt;AAK4148
    ...
    ENV-NAME= ldquo;
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000038
    ENV-NAME= rdquo;
    ...
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000930
    ENV-NAME= gt;(OCoLC)ocm34727346
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000932
    ENV-NAME= gt;AEW2757
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000934
    ENV-NAME= gt;(OCoLC)ocm27308467
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000936
    ENV-NAME= gt;AEZ5721
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000938
    ENV-NAME= gt;O
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000940
    ENV-NAME= gt;(OCoLC)ocm11076887
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000942
    ENV-NAME= gt;(GRSN)00479943
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000944
    ENV-NAME= gt;ACR3195
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000946
    ENV-NAME= gt;8750-7137
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000948
    ENV-NAME= gt;(OCoLC)ocm08075153
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000950
    ENV-NAME= gt;AER9369
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000952
    ENV-NAME= gt;1071-2984
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000954
    ENV-NAME= gt;(OCoLC)ocm04037347
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000956
    ENV-NAME= gt;AFK0495
    ...
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000988
    ENV-NAME= gt;(OCoLC)ocm61262401
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000990
    ENV-NAME= gt;(OCoLC)ocm40417776
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000992
    ENV-NAME= gt;AFM9895
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000994
    ENV-NAME= gt;YAJ9360
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000996
    ENV-NAME= gt;(OCoLC)ocm34943170
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000000998
    ENV-NAME= gt;YAG0473
    TAB-ENV-NO-LINES= 000001000
    ENV-NAME= gt;(OCoLC)ocm20356444
    Enviroment Table needs more than 1000 lines
    Enviroment Table needs more than 1000 lines

    The environment table is dynamic. But we see that it is hitting 1000 at your site while at other sites it isn't.

    It seems to me that these "&gt's", etc., should not be in this table. (It should not be doing a "getenv" to see if they are defined as global variables in ALEPH.)

    It's my belief that there is something about the ./www_f_eng/short-a-body-abser or /short-a-body-abc01. This is circumstantial, based on the fact that the update date on these files corresponded exactly to the time that this problem started happening (on Monday afternoon).

    I suggested that, *as a test*, you temporarily replace short-a-body-abc01 with

    Aug 20 14:39 short-a-body-abc01.20070807

    and delete the short-a-body-abser . (And do util x/7 to clear the utf_files to make the older version take effect.)


    <From site:>

    I modified the code so that &gt; and &lt; HTML special characters no longer appear in the short-a-body tables. The problem was caused by the following modification to edit_field.eng:

    1 # SFXLK D B ##
    2 a A <AA> </AA>
    2 b A <BB> </BB>

    We created the SFXLK field as a virtual field concatenating the 035 and the ISSN fields.

    We then used JavaScript in short-a-body to parse either the SFX ID, or, if the SFX ID does not exist, the ISSN.
    The parsed field is then dynamically inserted into an OpenURL.

    The <AA></AA> were simply placeholders to help parse the field. Aleph displays them as &lt;AA/&gt; in the source code.

    As you discovered, the www_server was reading these HTML special characters as variables. We have used this technique elsewhere in our OPAC customizations, but the change I made last week - because of the sheer numbers of 035 and ISSN fields - caused the table to fill-up.

    It seems to me that Aleph should not be checking to see if everything that has an ampersand before it is a variable - at least not for standard HTML characters...


    • Article last edited: 10/8/2013