Re: [Greenstone-users] Retour

[Diego S. <die...@gm...>]

Hi Katherine. I found the problem.

I installed GS3.12 in my computer in the same folder as Amadou, just to
recreate the same environment as him. I downloaded his collection and
started to analyze collectionConfig.xml. The import process had no
problems, so I started to check all options related to the index creation
process. All index fields were ok. Then I checked the classifiers. I
deleted them one by one and rebuilt the collection afer each deletion. The
collection built successfully after I deleted all classifiers. So the
problem was there. I restarted by adding them one by one and found that the
problem was in the option " -buttonname" . There were two List classifiers
with these values:

<classifier name="List">

<option name="-metadata" value="dc.Subject"/>
<option name="-buttonname" value="Thème"/>

</classifier>

<classifier name="AZCompactList">

<option name="-metadata" value="dc.Date"/>
<option name="-buttonname" value="Année"/>

</classifier>

The problem is the accent!. Just replaced them with a simple "e" and the
collection builds like a charm!

Cheers!

Diego


On Fri, May 8, 2026 at 1:02 AM Greenstone Digital Library Team via
Greenstone-Users <gre...@li...> wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> Just to be clear about your 3.12 installation:
> Did you already have a greenstone installation and you have installed 3.12
> over the top of it?  - This is bad.
> Or is C:\BNGS312 a completely fresh 3.12 install, (BNGS312 was a brand new
> folder) into which you have copied 3.09 collections? - This is good.
>
> Iin GLI, if you had to change the collect path, which it seems that you
> did - this means that previously you were building the collection in
> whatever collect directory had been specified before. Not in the current
> greenstone folder. This means the activation wouldn't work.
>
> Now that this collect path  is correct, you are building the collection in
> the right place. But again the activation is not working.
> When greenstone builds a collection, it starts with input files in the
> import directory. "import" converts them to our xml archive format, in
> "archives". Then we build indexes and classifiers and metadata database, in
> the "building" directory.
> then an activate step moves building to index, and reloads the collection
> on the server.
>
>  thank you for sending me the log from expert mode. It has a lot more
> information in it.
> From your build log we can see that the build went through but the
> activation didn't work.
>
> buildcol.pl> ************************buildcol.pl> * Running  Collection  Activation  Stagebuildcol.pl> ************************buildcol.pl> buildcol.pl> not well-formed (invalid token) at line 44, column 34, byte 1409 at C:/BNGS312/gs2build/bin/windows/strawberry-perl/perl/vendor/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 187.buildcol.pl> Error: Failed to run: "C:\BNGS312\gs2build\bin\windows\strawberry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe" -S activate.pl "-library_name" "library" "-collectdir" "C:\BNGS312\web\sites\localsite\collect" "-builddir" "C:\BNGS312\web\sites\localsite\collect\eau01\building" "-site" "localsite" "-verbosity" "2" "-removeold" "eau01"buildcol.pl>        No such file or directorybuildcol.pl> Can't spawn ""C:\BNGS312\gs2build\bin\windows\strawberry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe" -S buildcol.pl -removeold "-gli" "-language" "fr" "-activate" "-site" "localsite" "-library_name" "library" "-collectdir" "C:\BNGS312\web\sites\localsite\collect" "eau01"": No error at C:\BNGS312\gs2build\bin\script\full-buildcol.pl line 45.buildcol.pl> Error: Failed to run: "C:\BNGS312\gs2build\bin\windows\strawberry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe" -S buildcol.pl -removeold "-gli" "-language" "fr" "-activate" "-site" "localsite" "-library_name" "library" "-collectdir" "C:\BNGS312\web\sites\localsite\collect" "eau01"buildcol.pl> La commande a échoué.
>
> One thing to try - please shut GLI, and stop the greenstone server.
> Then go to C:\BNGS312\web\sites\localsite\collect\eau01.
> Is there a building folder?
> delete index and rename building to index.
>
> Then restart the greenstone server. Can you see the new documents in your
> collection now? If yes, it means that the rest of the collection build was
> ok, it was just the activation that failed.
> If you can no longer see the collection in the library - then something
> has also gone wrong in the build. Can you check the index/buildConfig.xml
> file - is it valid XML? Opening it in a browser should tell you if its well
> formed XML or not.
>
> Can you please also: start GLI, start a brand new collection, add a single
> document. You can leave other settings at their defaults.
> Then do a complete build. Does this work? Or do you get the same error
> about activation? If this works ok, then it must be something about the
> eau01 collection that is going wrong, rather than something wrong with your
> installation.
>
> Once we get the answers to all these questions, we will have more idea
> about where to go from here.
>
> Can I also just check - are you using the official 3.12 binary release?
> (not a release candidate, or a nightly release?)
> And what version of windows are you using?
>
> Regards,
> Katherine
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> *From:* Amadou K. Tall <tal...@gm...>
> *Sent:* Thursday, 7 May 2026 1:44 pm
> *To:* Greenstone Digital Library Team <gre...@wa...>
> *Subject:* Re: [Greenstone-users] Retour
>
> Hello Ms. Katherine, thank you again for your professionalism.
>
> I don't think I described the problem clearly enough.
>
> I installed GS312 in a folder containing an older version. The older
> documents are visible in the library, but the problem is that if I add new
> documents and run the build with GLI, it gives an error message at the end.
>
> Although the GLI log indicates that the documents are added and taken into
> account, they don't appear in the library.
>
> I checked the connection preferences and corrected them by specifying the
> correct path, but after the build, the same message reappears, and the new
> documents are not in the library. Diego Spano is also helping me, but the
> error persists. I'm sending you the GLI log.
>
> Sincerely, Katherine.
>
> Le mer. 6 mai 2026 à 22:23, Greenstone Digital Library Team <
> gre...@wa...> a écrit :
>
> Hi Amadou,
> Thanks for your various emails. Did you try all the things I mentioned in
> my previous email?
>
> It is fine to install greenstone in C:\BNGS312,  And it is also fine to
> copy in collections from previous greenstone installations.
>
> But GLI may be confused about which greenstone collect folder it is
> working with.
> When you start up GLI do you get a warning about non-standard collect
> home? - This means GLI is using the wrong collect folder, its using one set
> up for a previous greenstone. (Note I'll be working on fixing this for the
> next release)
> Did you check the file->preferences->connection settings? Is the collect
> folder specified the one in BNGS312? If not, change it to the correct one.
> C:\BNG312\web\sites\localsite\collect
>
> If that doesn't fix the problem, then next:
> Find the C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application
> Data\Greenstone\GLI folder. I think different versions of windows
> sometimes use a different path. eg it could be AppData instead of
> Application Data.  Note, this is NOT where you install greenstone, but
> instead where GLI stores some config files for when its running.
> There should be a gonfi3.xml in there. Shut down GLI, then delete the
> config3.xml file.
>
> Restart GLI - do you see your collection? does it have the newly added
> documents in it? If not, re-add them, rebuild - does it work this time?
>
> You can also check the collection folder on the file system - does the
> import folder contain the new documents you added using GLI?
>
> If, after you have tried all the above, you are still having trouble, then
> do the following:
> Please put GLI into expert mode, rebuild the collection, and send me the
> log. The log you sent was using librarian mode, so doesn't have any useful
> information in it.
>
> Regards,
> Katherine
>
>
>
>
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