Marcexport:Bus error (coredump):Failed to reassemble bib record

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Article Type: General
Product: Voyager
Product Version: 7.2.1

Symptoms

–aM switch in marcexport (export records in MARC21) produces core and/or bus error and stops when encounters record with unparseable characters.

Defect Status

Issue VYG-4486 is currently in Development.

Replication Steps

SSH to server as voyager user
cd /m1/voyager/xxxdb/sbin
Pmarcexport -aM -rB -mR -t651090-651090

Record Type: BIB
Export Mode: Range of MARC IDs
Export Target: 651090-651090

(# = 100 records)
EXPORTING...

ERROR Record 651090 translation error=[19]-700 : 8->16 illegal sequence in 8->16 at 6 'a3616820 .ah '

Failed to reassemble bib record: 651090

#...COMPLETED

Records written to Output File: 0

If you are doing a large export and it hits the record, it will stop exporting and sometimes produce a core file.

Workaround

Fix diacritics manually in Cataloging, then export.

Article last edited: 18-Mar-2015