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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR-CA link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello fellow Eprinters,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>We’ve been running Eprints 3.3.13 and a modified “lift_embargos” script for quite some time without any issue. But we noticed lately that the script has stopped working. It seems that it is now unable to <i>commit </i>any changes. Running in debug mode, I can see that the script fails after calling the “$doc->commit(1)” line: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Lifting expired embargo on eprint #2957, document #41378 (2019-11-19)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Courier New"'>main::CODE(0x999baa0)(lift_embargos:149):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Courier New"'>149: if( !$dryrun )<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Courier New"'>150: {<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Courier New"'>main::CODE(0x999baa0)(lift_embargos:151):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Courier New"'>151: $doc->set_value( "security", "public" );<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Courier New"'>main::CODE(0x999baa0)(lift_embargos:152):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Courier New"'>152: $doc->set_value( "date_embargo", undef );<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Courier New"'>main::CODE(0x999baa0)(lift_embargos:154):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Courier New"'>154: $doc->commit( 1 ); # pass force through to parent eprint<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Use of uninitialized value in string ne at (eval 65)[(eval 55)[/usr/share/eprints/bin/../perl_lib/EPrints/Config.pm:272]:19] line 48.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Courier New"'> at (eval 65)[(eval 55)[/usr/share/eprints/bin/../perl_lib/EPrints/Config.pm:272]:19] line 48.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Courier New"'> EPrints::Config::Ecole::__ANON__[(eval 65)[(eval 55)[/usr/share/eprints/bin/../perl_lib/EPrints/Config.pm:272]:19]:68]('EPrints::DataObj::Document=HASH(0x9a2f8f0)') called at /usr/share/eprints/bin/../perl_lib/EPrints/Repository.pm line 1726<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Courier New"'> eval {...} called at /usr/share/eprints/bin/../perl_lib/EPrints/Repository.pm line 1726<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Courier New"'> EPrints::Repository::call('EPrints::Repository=HASH(0x4654aa0)', 'set_document_automatic_fields', 'EPrints::DataObj::Document=HASH(0x9a2f8f0)') called at /usr/share/eprints/bin/../perl_lib/EPrints/DataObj.pm line 463<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Courier New"'> EPrints::DataObj::update_triggers('EPrints::DataObj::Document=HASH(0x9a2f8f0)') called at /usr/share/eprints/bin/../perl_lib/EPrints/DataObj/Document.pm line 1217<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Courier New"'> EPrints::DataObj::Document::commit('EPrints::DataObj::Document=HASH(0x9a2f8f0)', 1) called at lift_embargos line 154<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Courier New"'> main::__ANON__[lift_embargos:184]('EPrints::Repository=HASH(0x4654aa0)', 'EPrints::DataSet=HASH(0x57200e8)', 'EPrints::DataObj::Document=HASH(0x9a2f8f0)', undef) called at /usr/share/eprints/bin/../perl_lib/EPrints/List.pm line 664<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Courier New"'> EPrints::List::map('EPrints::List=HASH(0x2ff0af8)', 'CODE(0x999baa0)') called at lift_embargos line 184<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Courier New";background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>Can't call method "current_repository" on an undefined value at /usr/share/eprints/bin/../perl_lib/EPrints/BackCompatibility.pm line 443.</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>Looking at the code, I can see that the session information is passed to the other functions, but it doesn’t seem to be working anymore as the session is undefined when calling the method “current_repository” on line 443 of BackCompatibility.pm:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Courier New"'>return $EPrints::HANDLE->current_repository;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>The only thing that changed in the last few weeks has been a server upgrade (not sure what was the previous version but we are now running on CentOS 7 with Perl 5.16.3 and Apache 2.4.6). Using the workflow to commit changes still work without any issue. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>Has anyone encountered this error before? Could this be related to Perl or Apache’s configuration? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>Thank you for your input on this issue!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;color:#BF8F00;mso-fareast-language:FR-CA'>Robin Sylvestre</span></b><span lang=FR style='mso-fareast-language:FR-CA'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='mso-fareast-language:FR-CA'>Technicien des systèmes informatisés</span></b><span lang=FR style='mso-fareast-language:FR-CA'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:FR-CA'>Bibliothèque Louise-Lalonde-Lamarre</span><span lang=FR style='mso-fareast-language:FR-CA'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:FR-CA'>Polytechnique Montréal</span><span lang=FR style='mso-fareast-language:FR-CA'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:FR-CA'>514-340-4711 poste 5973</span><span lang=FR style='mso-fareast-language:FR-CA'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:FR-CA'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>