[EP-tech] EPrints breaks when a deposit is retired

[George Mamalakis]

Hello everybody,

As mentioned in the subject of this email, in EPrints 3.3.14 I tried to 
retire a deposit (without knowing what it exactly does) and after 
pressing the retire button from the action's menu, I got the error:

EPrints System Error

Attempt to get value from not existent field: eprint/replacedby

Looking the apache's error log, I saw:

------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------- EPrints System Error ----------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------
Attempt to get value from not existent field: eprint/replacedby
------------------------------------------------------------------
  at /usr/share/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/DataObj.pm line 702.
EPrints::DataObj::get_value(EPrints::DataObj::EPrint=HASH(0x7fc9323a2138), 
"replacedby") called at 
/usr/share/eprints3/lib/plugins/EPrints/Plugin/Collection.pm line 113
EPrints::DataObj::EPrint::render(EPrints::DataObj::EPrint=HASH(0x7fc9323a2138), 
1) called at:
  /usr/share/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/DataObj/EPrint.pm line 1499
EPrints::DataObj::EPrint::render_preview(EPrints::DataObj::EPrint=HASH(0x7fc9323a2138)) 
called at 
/usr/share/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/Plugin/Screen/EPrint/Summary.pm line 40
EPrints::Plugin::Screen::EPrint::Summary::render(EPrints::Plugin::Screen::EPrint::Summary=HASH(0x7fc93238cb80), 
"ep_eprint_view_0") called at 
/usr/share/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/Plugin/Screen/EPrint/View.pm line 188
EPrints::Plugin::Screen::EPrint::View::render(EPrints::Plugin::Screen::EPrint::View=HASH(0x7fc9323a3388)) 
called at /usr/share/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/ScreenProcessor.pm line 377
EPrints::ScreenProcessor::process("EPrints::ScreenProcessor", "session", 
EPrints::Repository=HASH(0x7fc93233e098), "template", undef, "url", 
"/cgi/users/home") called at /usr/share/eprints3/cgi/users/home line 25
ModPerl::ROOT::ModPerl::Registry::usr_share_eprints3_cgi_users_home::handler(Apache2::RequestRec=SCALAR(0x7fc931f7d1c0)) 
called at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20/ModPerl/RegistryCooker.pm 
line 207
          eval {...} called at 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20/ModPerl/RegistryCooker.pm line 207
ModPerl::RegistryCooker::run(ModPerl::Registry=HASH(0x7fc932305a40)) 
called at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20/ModPerl/RegistryCooker.pm 
line 173
ModPerl::RegistryCooker::default_handler(ModPerl::Registry=HASH(0x7fc932305a40)) 
called at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20/ModPerl/Registry.pm line 32
         ModPerl::Registry::handler("ModPerl::Registry", 
Apache2::RequestRec=SCALAR(0x7fc931f7d1c0)) called at -e line 0
         eval {...} called at -e line 0
[Wed Dec 02 10:55:58.336760 2015] [:error] [pid 21450] EPrints::abort()\n

In this state, from the web interface I am not able to delete it (delete 
is not found in the available options), so I have to remove the item 
using a script.

It doesn't seem to be a problem with my installation, and it's easy to 
reproduce, so I assume it should be reported to eprints-github once it 
is confirmed by someone else as well.

Thanks all in advance,

George.

-- 
George Mamalakis

IT and Security Officer,
Electrical and Computer Engineer (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki),
PhD (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki),
MSc (Imperial College of London)

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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