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From: Yuri <yurj AT alfa.it>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:26:52 +0200

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Francis Jayakanth ha scritto:
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> I, too, am in the process of migrating our version of eprints software 
> (2.3.13.1) to the latest EP3 release candidate. I have made some 
> progress and thought I should share it with the list.
>
> 1. Using the migration toolkit, I exported config files, eprints, 
> subjects, and users from the production server.
>
> 2. Installed a latest version of EP3 on a different computer system.
>
> 3. Modified the various configuration files to include the contents of 
> the configuration files generated by the migration tool.
>
> 4. Imported users, subjects, and eprints
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> 5. Once I ensured that the web server comes up without any complaints 
> and all the links and workflows are working normally, I commented the 
> features in EP# configuration files, which are not need by us.


Can you expand this? :)

>
> By following these steps, our testbed migration looks more or less 
> like the existing production server (in terms of content),


I can import content but not the config. Importing the config, when I go 
to the abstract page, it is missing.


> though there are some issues to be sorted. I had posted these issues a 
> couple days back but so far there has been no comments. I will just 
> repeat couple of them and I'm hoping that someone from the list will 
> be able to throw some light on some of the issues that I'm facing:
>
> Latex is not being rendered. All the pre-requisite software - latex, 
> dvips, and convert - are installed and SystemSettings.pm points to 
> these tools correctly. I just noticed that the web server error log 
> has this to report:
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>  [error] can't open 
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/opt/eprints3/archives/migdemo/html/latexcache/7b7f9dbfea05c83784f8b85149852f08.png 
> at /opt/eprints3/cgi/latex2png line 43.\nconvert: no decode delegate 
> for this image format 
> `/opt/eprints3/archives/migdemo/html/latexcache/14131.ps'.convert: 
> missing an image filename 
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`/opt/eprints3/archives/migdemo/html/latexcache/5bfbae423b1b34fccecce32262218dd6.png'. 
>

I think because convert cannot decode this kind of image, maybe not a 
png or you're missing some png libraries?

>
> /html/latexcache is indeed empty.
>
> The second issue is related to searching - simple and adv - is not 
> consistent. For some search terms, no hits are returned, though the 
> contents for such terms are very much there. I had initiated indexing 
> using the --once option. It is not running as a daemon.

Not there :(

>
> Thanks very much for your attention.
>
>  - Francis
>
> NCSI, IISc
> Bangalore, India
>
>
> On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Yuri wrote:
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>> also, importing I get a lot of
>>
>> DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Unknown column 'strutture' in 'field 
>> list' at /usr/share/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/Database.pm line 1157.
>> Imported eprint 551
>>
>> and so on.
>>
>> I've copied all the cfg.d files over the new repository, so can you 
>> tell me where I can look to solve this issue?
>>
>> Many thanks.
>>
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