CGSpace Notes

November, 2020

Sun, 01 Nov 2020 13:11:54 +0200

2020-11-01

Continue with processing the statistics-2019 Solr core with the AtomicStatisticsUpdateCLI tool on DSpace Test
- So far we’ve spent at least fifty hours to process the statistics and statistics-2019 core… wow.

October, 2020

Tue, 06 Oct 2020 16:55:54 +0300

2020-10-06

Add tests for the new /items POST handlers to the DSpace 6.x branch of my dspace-statistics-api
- It took a bit of extra work because I had to learn how to mock the responses for when Solr is not available
- Tag and release version 1.3.0 on GitHub: https://github.com/ilri/dspace-statistics-api/releases/tag/v1.3.0
Trying to test the changes Atmire sent last week but I had to re-create my local database from a recent CGSpace dump
- During the FlywayDB migration I got an error:

September, 2020

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 15:35:54 +0300

2020-09-02

Replace Marissa van Epp for Rhys Bucknall in the CCAFS groups on CGSpace because Marissa no longer works at CCAFS
The AReS Explorer hasn’t updated its index since 2020-08-22 when I last forced it
- I restarted it again now and told Moayad that the automatic indexing isn’t working
Add Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT to affiliations on CGSpace
Abenet told me that the general search text on AReS doesn’t get reset when you use the “Reset Filters” button
- I filed a bug on OpenRXV: https://github.com/ilri/OpenRXV/issues/39
I filed an issue on OpenRXV to make some minor edits to the admin UI: https://github.com/ilri/OpenRXV/issues/40

August, 2020

Sun, 02 Aug 2020 15:35:54 +0300

2020-08-02

I spent a few days working on a Java-based curation task to tag items with ISO 3166-1 Alpha2 country codes based on their cg.coverage.country text values
- It looks up the names in ISO 3166-1 first, and then in our CGSpace countries mapping (which has five or so of Peter’s preferred “display” country names)
- It implements a “force” mode too that will clear existing country codes and re-tag everything
- It is class based so I can easily add support for other vocabularies, and the technique could even be used for organizations with mappings to ROR and Clarisa…

July, 2020

Wed, 01 Jul 2020 10:53:54 +0300

2020-07-01

A few users noticed that CGSpace wasn’t loading items today, item pages seem blank
- I looked at the PostgreSQL locks but they don’t seem unusual
- I guess this is the same “blank item page” issue that we had a few times in 2019 that we never solved
- I restarted Tomcat and PostgreSQL and the issue was gone
Since I was restarting Tomcat anyways I decided to redeploy the latest changes from the 5_x-prod branch and I added a note about COVID-19 items to the CGSpace frontpage at Peter’s request

June, 2020

Mon, 01 Jun 2020 13:55:39 +0300

2020-06-01

I tried to run the AtomicStatisticsUpdateCLI CUA migration script on DSpace Test (linode26) again and it is still going very slowly and has tons of errors like I noticed yesterday
- I sent Atmire the dspace.log from today and told them to log into the server to debug the process
In other news, I checked the statistics API on DSpace 6 and it’s working
I tried to build the OAI registry on the freshly migrated DSpace 6 on DSpace Test and I get an error:

May, 2020

Sat, 02 May 2020 09:52:04 +0300

2020-05-02

Peter said that CTA is having problems submitting an item to CGSpace
- Looking at the PostgreSQL stats it seems to be the same issue that Tezira was having last week, as I see the number of connections in ‘idle in transaction’ and ‘waiting for lock’ state are increasing again
- I see that CGSpace (linode18) is still using PostgreSQL JDBC driver version 42.2.11, and there were some bugs related to transactions fixed in 42.2.12 (which I had updated in the Ansible playbooks, but not deployed yet)

April, 2020

Thu, 02 Apr 2020 10:53:24 +0300

2020-04-02

Maria asked me to update Charles Staver’s ORCID iD in the submission template and on CGSpace, as his name was lower case before, and now he has corrected it
- I updated the fifty-eight existing items on CGSpace
Looking into the items Udana had asked about last week that were missing Altmetric donuts:
- The first is still missing its DOI, so I added it and tweeted its handle (after a few hours there was a donut with score 222)
- The second item now has a donut with score 2 since I tweeted its handle last week
- The third item now has a donut with score 1 since I tweeted it last week
On the same note, the one item Abenet pointed out last week now has a donut with score of 104 after I tweeted it last week

March, 2020

Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:31:30 +0200

2020-03-02

Update dspace-statistics-api for DSpace 6+ UUIDs
- Tag version 1.2.0 on GitHub
Test migrating legacy Solr statistics to UUIDs with the as-of-yet unreleased SolrUpgradePre6xStatistics.java
- You need to download this into the DSpace 6.x source and compile it

February, 2020

Sun, 02 Feb 2020 11:56:30 +0200

2020-02-02

Continue working on porting CGSpace’s DSpace 5 code to DSpace 6.3 that I started yesterday
- Sign up for an account with MaxMind so I can get the GeoLite2-City.mmdb database
- I still need to wire up the API credentials and cron job into the Ansible infrastructure playbooks
- Fix some minor issues in the config and XMLUI themes, like removing Atmire stuff
- The code finally builds and runs with a fresh install

January, 2020

Mon, 06 Jan 2020 10:48:30 +0200

2020-01-06

Open a ticket with Atmire to request a quote for the upgrade to DSpace 6
Last week Altmetric responded about the item that had a lower score than than its DOI
- The score is now linked to the DOI
- Another item that had the same problem in 2019 has now also linked to the score for its DOI
- Another item that had the same problem in 2019 has also been fixed

2020-01-07

Peter Ballantyne highlighted one more WLE item that is missing the Altmetric score that its DOI has
- The DOI has a score of 259, but the Handle has no score at all
- I tweeted the CGSpace repository link

December, 2019

Sun, 01 Dec 2019 11:22:30 +0200

2019-12-01

Upgrade CGSpace (linode18) to Ubuntu 18.04:
- Check any packages that have residual configs and purge them:
- # dpkg -l | grep -E ‘^rc’ | awk ‘{print $2}’ | xargs dpkg -P
- Make sure all packages are up to date and the package manager is up to date, then reboot:

# apt update && apt full-upgrade
# apt-get autoremove && apt-get autoclean
# dpkg -C
# reboot

November, 2019

Mon, 04 Nov 2019 12:20:30 +0200

2019-11-04

Peter noticed that there were 5.2 million hits on CGSpace in 2019-10 according to the Atmire usage statistics
- I looked in the nginx logs and see 4.6 million in the access logs, and 1.2 million in the API logs:

# zcat --force /var/log/nginx/*access.log.*.gz | grep -cE "[0-9]{1,2}/Oct/2019"
4671942
# zcat --force /var/log/nginx/{rest,oai,statistics}.log.*.gz | grep -cE "[0-9]{1,2}/Oct/2019"
1277694

So 4.6 million from XMLUI and another 1.2 million from API requests
Let’s see how many of the REST API requests were for bitstreams (because they are counted in Solr stats):

# zcat --force /var/log/nginx/rest.log.*.gz | grep -c -E "[0-9]{1,2}/Oct/2019"
1183456 
# zcat --force /var/log/nginx/rest.log.*.gz | grep -E "[0-9]{1,2}/Oct/2019" | grep -c -E "/rest/bitstreams"
106781

CGSpace CG Core v2 Migration

Mon, 28 Oct 2019 13:27:35 +0200

Possible changes to CGSpace metadata fields to align more with DC, QDC, and DCTERMS as well as CG Core v2.

With reference to CG Core v2 draft standard by Marie-Angélique as well as DCMI DCTERMS.

October, 2019

Tue, 01 Oct 2019 13:20:51 +0300

2019-10-01 Udana from IWMI asked me for a CSV export of their community on CGSpace I exported it, but a quick run through the csv-metadata-quality tool shows that there are some low-hanging fruits we can fix before I send him the data I will limit the scope to the titles, regions, subregions, and river basins for now to manually fix some non-breaking spaces (U+00A0) there that would otherwise be removed by the csv-metadata-quality script’s “unneccesary Unicode” fix: $ csvcut -c 'id,dc.

September, 2019

Sun, 01 Sep 2019 10:17:51 +0300

2019-09-01

Linode emailed to say that CGSpace (linode18) had a high rate of outbound traffic for several hours this morning
Here are the top ten IPs in the nginx XMLUI and REST/OAI logs this morning:

# zcat --force /var/log/nginx/access.log /var/log/nginx/access.log.1 | grep -E "01/Sep/2019:0" | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n 10
    440 17.58.101.255
    441 157.55.39.101
    485 207.46.13.43
    728 169.60.128.125
    730 207.46.13.108
    758 157.55.39.9
    808 66.160.140.179
    814 207.46.13.212
   2472 163.172.71.23
   6092 3.94.211.189
# zcat --force /var/log/nginx/rest.log /var/log/nginx/rest.log.1 /var/log/nginx/oai.log /var/log/nginx/oai.log.1 | grep -E "01/Sep/2019:0" | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n 10
     33 2a01:7e00::f03c:91ff:fe16:fcb
     57 3.83.192.124
     57 3.87.77.25
     57 54.82.1.8
    822 2a01:9cc0:47:1:1a:4:0:2
   1223 45.5.184.72
   1633 172.104.229.92
   5112 205.186.128.185
   7249 2a01:7e00::f03c:91ff:fe18:7396
   9124 45.5.186.2

August, 2019

Sat, 03 Aug 2019 12:39:51 +0300

2019-08-03

Look at Bioversity’s latest migration CSV and now I see that Francesco has cleaned up the extra columns and the newline at the end of the file, but many of the column headers have an extra space in the name…

2019-08-04

Deploy ORCID identifier updates requested by Bioversity to CGSpace
Run system updates on CGSpace (linode18) and reboot it
- Before updating it I checked Solr and verified that all statistics cores were loaded properly…
- After rebooting, all statistics cores were loaded… wow, that’s lucky.
Run system updates on DSpace Test (linode19) and reboot it

July, 2019

Mon, 01 Jul 2019 12:13:51 +0300

2019-07-01

Create an “AfricaRice books and book chapters” collection on CGSpace for AfricaRice
Last month Sisay asked why the following “most popular” statistics link for a range of months in 2018 works for the CIAT community on DSpace Test, but not on CGSpace:
- DSpace Test
- CGSpace
Abenet had another similar issue a few days ago when trying to find the stats for 2018 in the RTB community

June, 2019

Sun, 02 Jun 2019 10:57:51 +0300

2019-06-02

Merge the Solr filterCache and XMLUI ISI journal changes to the 5_x-prod branch and deploy on CGSpace
Run system updates on CGSpace (linode18) and reboot it

2019-06-03

Skype with Marie-Angélique and Abenet about CG Core v2

May, 2019

Wed, 01 May 2019 07:37:43 +0300

2019-05-01

Help CCAFS with regenerating some item thumbnails after they uploaded new PDFs to some items on CGSpace
A user on the dspace-tech mailing list offered some suggestions for troubleshooting the problem with the inability to delete certain items
- Apparently if the item is in the workflowitem table it is submitted to a workflow
- And if it is in the workspaceitem table it is in the pre-submitted state
The item seems to be in a pre-submitted state, so I tried to delete it from there:

dspace=# DELETE FROM workspaceitem WHERE item_id=74648;
DELETE 1

But after this I tried to delete the item from the XMLUI and it is still present…

April, 2019

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 09:00:43 +0300

2019-04-01

Meeting with AgroKnow to discuss CGSpace, ILRI data, AReS, GARDIAN, etc
- They asked if we had plans to enable RDF support in CGSpace
There have been 4,400 more downloads of the CTA Spore publication from those strange Amazon IP addresses today
- I suspected that some might not be successful, because the stats show less, but today they were all HTTP 200!

# cat /var/log/nginx/access.log /var/log/nginx/access.log.1 | grep 'Spore-192-EN-web.pdf' | grep -E '(18.196.196.108|18.195.78.144|18.195.218.6)' | awk '{print $9}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n 5
   4432 200

In the last two weeks there have been 47,000 downloads of this same exact PDF by these three IP addresses
Apply country and region corrections and deletions on DSpace Test and CGSpace:

$ ./fix-metadata-values.py -i /tmp/2019-02-21-fix-9-countries.csv -db dspace -u dspace -p 'fuuu' -f cg.coverage.country -m 228 -t ACTION -d
$ ./fix-metadata-values.py -i /tmp/2019-02-21-fix-4-regions.csv -db dspace -u dspace -p 'fuuu' -f cg.coverage.region -m 231 -t action -d
$ ./delete-metadata-values.py -i /tmp/2019-02-21-delete-2-countries.csv -db dspace -u dspace -p 'fuuu' -m 228 -f cg.coverage.country -d
$ ./delete-metadata-values.py -i /tmp/2019-02-21-delete-1-region.csv -db dspace -u dspace -p 'fuuu' -m 231 -f cg.coverage.region -d

March, 2019

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 12:16:30 +0100

2019-03-01

I checked IITA’s 259 Feb 14 records from last month for duplicates using Atmire’s Duplicate Checker on a fresh snapshot of CGSpace on my local machine and everything looks good
I am now only waiting to hear from her about where the items should go, though I assume Journal Articles go to IITA Journal Articles collection, etc…
Looking at the other half of Udana’s WLE records from 2018-11
- I finished the ones for Restoring Degraded Landscapes (RDL), but these are for Variability, Risks and Competing Uses (VRC)
- I did the usual cleanups for whitespace, added regions where they made sense for certain countries, cleaned up the DOI link formats, added rights information based on the publications page for a few items
- Most worryingly, there are encoding errors in the abstracts for eleven items, for example:
- 68.15% � 9.45 instead of 68.15% ± 9.45
- 2003�2013 instead of 2003–2013
I think I will need to ask Udana to re-copy and paste the abstracts with more care using Google Docs

February, 2019

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 21:37:30 +0200

2019-02-01

Linode has alerted a few times since last night that the CPU usage on CGSpace (linode18) was high despite me increasing the alert threshold last week from 250% to 275%—I might need to increase it again!
The top IPs before, during, and after this latest alert tonight were:

# zcat --force /var/log/nginx/*.log /var/log/nginx/*.log.1 | grep -E "01/Feb/2019:(17|18|19|20|21)" | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n 10
    245 207.46.13.5
    332 54.70.40.11
    385 5.143.231.38
    405 207.46.13.173
    405 207.46.13.75
   1117 66.249.66.219
   1121 35.237.175.180
   1546 5.9.6.51
   2474 45.5.186.2
   5490 85.25.237.71

85.25.237.71 is the “Linguee Bot” that I first saw last month
The Solr statistics the past few months have been very high and I was wondering if the web server logs also showed an increase
There were just over 3 million accesses in the nginx logs last month:

# time zcat --force /var/log/nginx/* | grep -cE "[0-9]{1,2}/Jan/2019"
3018243

real    0m19.873s
user    0m22.203s
sys     0m1.979s

January, 2019

Wed, 02 Jan 2019 09:48:30 +0200

2019-01-02

Linode alerted that CGSpace (linode18) had a higher outbound traffic rate than normal early this morning
I don’t see anything interesting in the web server logs around that time though:

# zcat --force /var/log/nginx/*.log /var/log/nginx/*.log.1 | grep -E "02/Jan/2019:0(1|2|3)" | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n 10
     92 40.77.167.4
     99 210.7.29.100
    120 38.126.157.45
    177 35.237.175.180
    177 40.77.167.32
    216 66.249.75.219
    225 18.203.76.93
    261 46.101.86.248
    357 207.46.13.1
    903 54.70.40.11

December, 2018

Sun, 02 Dec 2018 02:09:30 +0200

2018-12-01

Switch CGSpace (linode18) to use OpenJDK instead of Oracle JDK
I manually installed OpenJDK, then removed Oracle JDK, then re-ran the Ansible playbook to update all configuration files, etc
Then I ran all system updates and restarted the server

2018-12-02

I noticed that there is another issue with PDF thumbnails on CGSpace, and I see there was another Ghostscript vulnerability last week

November, 2018

Thu, 01 Nov 2018 16:41:30 +0200

2018-11-01

Finalize AReS Phase I and Phase II ToRs
Send a note about my dspace-statistics-api to the dspace-tech mailing list

2018-11-03

Linode has been sending mails a few times a day recently that CGSpace (linode18) has had high CPU usage
Today these are the top 10 IPs:

October, 2018

Mon, 01 Oct 2018 22:31:54 +0300

2018-10-01

Phil Thornton got an ORCID identifier so we need to add it to the list on CGSpace and tag his existing items
I created a GitHub issue to track this #389, because I’m super busy in Nairobi right now

September, 2018

Sun, 02 Sep 2018 09:55:54 +0300

2018-09-02

New PostgreSQL JDBC driver version 42.2.5
I’ll update the DSpace role in our Ansible infrastructure playbooks and run the updated playbooks on CGSpace and DSpace Test
Also, I’ll re-run the postgresql tasks because the custom PostgreSQL variables are dynamic according to the system’s RAM, and we never re-ran them after migrating to larger Linodes last month
I’m testing the new DSpace 5.8 branch in my Ubuntu 18.04 environment and I’m getting those autowire errors in Tomcat 8.5.30 again:

August, 2018

Wed, 01 Aug 2018 11:52:54 +0300

2018-08-01

DSpace Test had crashed at some point yesterday morning and I see the following in dmesg:

[Tue Jul 31 00:00:41 2018] Out of memory: Kill process 1394 (java) score 668 or sacrifice child
[Tue Jul 31 00:00:41 2018] Killed process 1394 (java) total-vm:15601860kB, anon-rss:5355528kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
[Tue Jul 31 00:00:41 2018] oom_reaper: reaped process 1394 (java), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB

Judging from the time of the crash it was probably related to the Discovery indexing that starts at midnight
From the DSpace log I see that eventually Solr stopped responding, so I guess the java process that was OOM killed above was Tomcat’s
I’m not sure why Tomcat didn’t crash with an OutOfMemoryError…
Anyways, perhaps I should increase the JVM heap from 5120m to 6144m like we did a few months ago when we tried to run the whole CGSpace Solr core
The server only has 8GB of RAM so we’ll eventually need to upgrade to a larger one because we’ll start starving the OS, PostgreSQL, and command line batch processes
I ran all system updates on DSpace Test and rebooted it

July, 2018

Sun, 01 Jul 2018 12:56:54 +0300

2018-07-01

I want to upgrade DSpace Test to DSpace 5.8 so I took a backup of its current database just in case:

$ pg_dump -b -v -o --format=custom -U dspace -f dspace-2018-07-01.backup dspace

During the mvn package stage on the 5.8 branch I kept getting issues with java running out of memory:

There is insufficient memory for the Java Runtime Environment to continue.

June, 2018

Mon, 04 Jun 2018 19:49:54 -0700

2018-06-04

Test the DSpace 5.8 module upgrades from Atmire (#378)
- There seems to be a problem with the CUA and L&R versions in pom.xml because they are using SNAPSHOT and it doesn’t build
I added the new CCAFS Phase II Project Tag PII-FP1_PACCA2 and merged it into the 5_x-prod branch (#379)
I proofed and tested the ILRI author corrections that Peter sent back to me this week:

$ ./fix-metadata-values.py -i /tmp/2018-05-30-Correct-660-authors.csv -db dspace -u dspace -p 'fuuu' -f dc.contributor.author -t correct -m 3 -n

I think a sane proofing workflow in OpenRefine is to apply the custom text facets for check/delete/remove and illegal characters that I developed in March, 2018
Time to index ~70,000 items on CGSpace:

$ time schedtool -D -e ionice -c2 -n7 nice -n19 [dspace]/bin/dspace index-discovery -b                                  

real    74m42.646s
user    8m5.056s
sys     2m7.289s

May, 2018

Tue, 01 May 2018 16:43:54 +0300

2018-05-01

I cleared the Solr statistics core on DSpace Test by issuing two commands directly to the Solr admin interface:
- http://localhost:3000/solr/statistics/update?stream.body=%3Cdelete%3E%3Cquery%3E*:*%3C/query%3E%3C/delete%3E
- http://localhost:3000/solr/statistics/update?stream.body=%3Ccommit/%3E
Then I reduced the JVM heap size from 6144 back to 5120m
Also, I switched it to use OpenJDK instead of Oracle Java, as well as re-worked the Ansible infrastructure scripts to support hosts choosing which distribution they want to use

April, 2018

Sun, 01 Apr 2018 16:13:54 +0200

2018-04-01

I tried to test something on DSpace Test but noticed that it’s down since god knows when
Catalina logs at least show some memory errors yesterday:

March, 2018

Fri, 02 Mar 2018 16:07:54 +0200

2018-03-02

Export a CSV of the IITA community metadata for Martin Mueller

February, 2018

Thu, 01 Feb 2018 16:28:54 +0200

2018-02-01

Peter gave feedback on the dc.rights proof of concept that I had sent him last week
We don’t need to distinguish between internal and external works, so that makes it just a simple list
Yesterday I figured out how to monitor DSpace sessions using JMX
I copied the logic in the jmx_tomcat_dbpools provided by Ubuntu’s munin-plugins-java package and used the stuff I discovered about JMX in 2018-01

January, 2018

Tue, 02 Jan 2018 08:35:54 -0800

2018-01-02

Uptime Robot noticed that CGSpace went down and up a few times last night, for a few minutes each time
I didn’t get any load alerts from Linode and the REST and XMLUI logs don’t show anything out of the ordinary
The nginx logs show HTTP 200s until 02/Jan/2018:11:27:17 +0000 when Uptime Robot got an HTTP 500
In dspace.log around that time I see many errors like “Client closed the connection before file download was complete”
And just before that I see this:

Caused by: org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.PoolExhaustedException: [http-bio-127.0.0.1-8443-exec-980] Timeout: Pool empty. Unable to fetch a connection in 5 seconds, none available[size:50; busy:50; idle:0; lastwait:5000].

Ah hah! So the pool was actually empty!
I need to increase that, let’s try to bump it up from 50 to 75
After that one client got an HTTP 499 but then the rest were HTTP 200, so I don’t know what the hell Uptime Robot saw
I notice this error quite a few times in dspace.log:

2018-01-02 01:21:19,137 ERROR org.dspace.app.xmlui.aspect.discovery.SidebarFacetsTransformer @ Error while searching for sidebar facets
org.dspace.discovery.SearchServiceException: org.apache.solr.search.SyntaxError: Cannot parse 'dateIssued_keyword:[1976+TO+1979]': Encountered " "]" "] "" at line 1, column 32.

And there are many of these errors every day for the past month:

$ grep -c "Error while searching for sidebar facets" dspace.log.*
dspace.log.2017-11-21:4
dspace.log.2017-11-22:1
dspace.log.2017-11-23:4
dspace.log.2017-11-24:11
dspace.log.2017-11-25:0
dspace.log.2017-11-26:1
dspace.log.2017-11-27:7
dspace.log.2017-11-28:21
dspace.log.2017-11-29:31
dspace.log.2017-11-30:15
dspace.log.2017-12-01:15
dspace.log.2017-12-02:20
dspace.log.2017-12-03:38
dspace.log.2017-12-04:65
dspace.log.2017-12-05:43
dspace.log.2017-12-06:72
dspace.log.2017-12-07:27
dspace.log.2017-12-08:15
dspace.log.2017-12-09:29
dspace.log.2017-12-10:35
dspace.log.2017-12-11:20
dspace.log.2017-12-12:44
dspace.log.2017-12-13:36
dspace.log.2017-12-14:59
dspace.log.2017-12-15:104
dspace.log.2017-12-16:53
dspace.log.2017-12-17:66
dspace.log.2017-12-18:83
dspace.log.2017-12-19:101
dspace.log.2017-12-20:74
dspace.log.2017-12-21:55
dspace.log.2017-12-22:66
dspace.log.2017-12-23:50
dspace.log.2017-12-24:85
dspace.log.2017-12-25:62
dspace.log.2017-12-26:49
dspace.log.2017-12-27:30
dspace.log.2017-12-28:54
dspace.log.2017-12-29:68
dspace.log.2017-12-30:89
dspace.log.2017-12-31:53
dspace.log.2018-01-01:45
dspace.log.2018-01-02:34

Danny wrote to ask for help renewing the wildcard ilri.org certificate and I advised that we should probably use Let’s Encrypt if it’s just a handful of domains

December, 2017

Fri, 01 Dec 2017 13:53:54 +0300

2017-12-01

Uptime Robot noticed that CGSpace went down
The logs say “Timeout waiting for idle object”
PostgreSQL activity says there are 115 connections currently
The list of connections to XMLUI and REST API for today:

November, 2017

Thu, 02 Nov 2017 09:37:54 +0200

2017-11-01

The CORE developers responded to say they are looking into their bot not respecting our robots.txt

2017-11-02

Today there have been no hits by CORE and no alerts from Linode (coincidence?)

# grep -c "CORE" /var/log/nginx/access.log
0

Generate list of authors on CGSpace for Peter to go through and correct:

dspace=# \copy (select distinct text_value, count(*) as count from metadatavalue where metadata_field_id = (select metadata_field_id from metadatafieldregistry where element = 'contributor' and qualifier = 'author') AND resource_type_id = 2 group by text_value order by count desc) to /tmp/authors.csv with csv;
COPY 54701

October, 2017

Sun, 01 Oct 2017 08:07:54 +0300

2017-10-01

Peter emailed to point out that many items in the ILRI archive collection have multiple handles:

http://hdl.handle.net/10568/78495||http://hdl.handle.net/10568/79336

There appears to be a pattern but I’ll have to look a bit closer and try to clean them up automatically, either in SQL or in OpenRefine
Add Katherine Lutz to the groups for content submission and edit steps of the CGIAR System collections

CGIAR Library Migration

Mon, 18 Sep 2017 16:38:35 +0300

Rough notes for importing the CGIAR Library content. It was decided that this content would go to a new top-level community called CGIAR System Organization.

September, 2017

Thu, 07 Sep 2017 16:54:52 +0700

2017-09-06

Linode sent an alert that CGSpace (linode18) was using 261% CPU for the past two hours

2017-09-07

Ask Sisay to clean up the WLE approvers a bit, as Marianne’s user account is both in the approvers step as well as the group

August, 2017

Tue, 01 Aug 2017 11:51:52 +0300

2017-08-01

Linode sent an alert that CGSpace (linode18) was using 350% CPU for the past two hours
I looked in the Activity pane of the Admin Control Panel and it seems that Google, Baidu, Yahoo, and Bing are all crawling with massive numbers of bots concurrently (~100 total, mostly Baidu and Google)
The good thing is that, according to dspace.log.2017-08-01, they are all using the same Tomcat session
This means our Tomcat Crawler Session Valve is working
But many of the bots are browsing dynamic URLs like:
- /handle/10568/3353/discover
- /handle/10568/16510/browse
The robots.txt only blocks the top-level /discover and /browse URLs… we will need to find a way to forbid them from accessing these!
Relevant issue from DSpace Jira (semi resolved in DSpace 6.0): https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-2962
It turns out that we’re already adding the X-Robots-Tag "none" HTTP header, but this only forbids the search engine from indexing the page, not crawling it!
Also, the bot has to successfully browse the page first so it can receive the HTTP header…
We might actually have to block these requests with HTTP 403 depending on the user agent
Abenet pointed out that the CGIAR Library Historical Archive collection I sent July 20th only had ~100 entries, instead of 2415
This was due to newline characters in the dc.description.abstract column, which caused OpenRefine to choke when exporting the CSV
I exported a new CSV from the collection on DSpace Test and then manually removed the characters in vim using g/^$/d
Then I cleaned up the author authorities and HTML characters in OpenRefine and sent the file back to Abenet

July, 2017

Sat, 01 Jul 2017 18:03:52 +0300

2017-07-01

Run system updates and reboot DSpace Test

2017-07-04

Merge changes for WLE Phase II theme rename (#329)
Looking at extracting the metadata registries from ICARDA’s MEL DSpace database so we can compare fields with CGSpace
We can use PostgreSQL’s extended output format (-x) plus sed to format the output into quasi XML:

June, 2017

Thu, 01 Jun 2017 10:14:52 +0300

2017-06-01 After discussion with WLE and CGSpace content people, we decided to just add one metadata field for the WLE Research Themes The cg.identifier.wletheme field will be used for both Phase I and Phase II Research Themes Then we’ll create a new sub-community for Phase II and create collections for the research themes there The current “Research Themes” community will be renamed to “WLE Phase I Research Themes” Tagged all items in the current Phase I collections with their appropriate themes Create pull request to add Phase II research themes to the submission form: #328 Add cg.

May, 2017

Mon, 01 May 2017 16:21:52 +0200

2017-05-01 ICARDA apparently started working on CG Core on their MEL repository They have done a few cg.* fields, but not very consistent and even copy some of CGSpace items: https://mel.cgiar.org/xmlui/handle/20.500.11766/6911?show=full https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/73683 2017-05-02 Atmire got back about the Workflow Statistics issue, and apparently it’s a bug in the CUA module so they will send us a pull request 2017-05-04 Sync DSpace Test with database and assetstore from CGSpace Re-deploy DSpace Test with Atmire’s CUA patch for workflow statistics, run system updates, and restart the server Now I can see the workflow statistics and am able to select users, but everything returns 0 items Megan says there are still some mapped items are not appearing since last week, so I forced a full index-discovery -b Need to remember to check if the collection has more items (currently 39 on CGSpace, but 118 on the freshly reindexed DSPace Test) tomorrow: https://cgspace.

April, 2017

Sun, 02 Apr 2017 17:08:52 +0200

2017-04-02

Merge one change to CCAFS flagships that I had forgotten to remove last month (“MANAGING CLIMATE RISK”): https://github.com/ilri/DSpace/pull/317
Quick proof-of-concept hack to add dc.rights to the input form, including some inline instructions/hints:

Remove redundant/duplicate text in the DSpace submission license
Testing the CMYK patch on a collection with 650 items:

$ [dspace]/bin/dspace filter-media -f -i 10568/16498 -p "ImageMagick PDF Thumbnail" -v >& /tmp/filter-media-cmyk.txt

March, 2017

Wed, 01 Mar 2017 17:08:52 +0200

2017-03-01

Run the 279 CIAT author corrections on CGSpace

2017-03-02

Skype with Michael and Peter, discussing moving the CGIAR Library to CGSpace
CGIAR people possibly open to moving content, redirecting library.cgiar.org to CGSpace and letting CGSpace resolve their handles
They might come in at the top level in one “CGIAR System” community, or with several communities
I need to spend a bit of time looking at the multiple handle support in DSpace and see if new content can be minted in both handles, or just one?
Need to send Peter and Michael some notes about this in a few days
Also, need to consider talking to Atmire about hiring them to bring ORCiD metadata to REST / OAI
Filed an issue on DSpace issue tracker for the filter-media bug that causes it to process JPGs even when limiting to the PDF thumbnail plugin: DS-3516
Discovered that the ImageMagic filter-media plugin creates JPG thumbnails with the CMYK colorspace when the source PDF is using CMYK
Interestingly, it seems DSpace 4.x’s thumbnails were sRGB, but forcing regeneration using DSpace 5.x’s ImageMagick plugin creates CMYK JPGs if the source PDF was CMYK (see 10568/51999):

$ identify ~/Desktop/alc_contrastes_desafios.jpg
/Users/aorth/Desktop/alc_contrastes_desafios.jpg JPEG 464x600 464x600+0+0 8-bit CMYK 168KB 0.000u 0:00.000

February, 2017

Tue, 07 Feb 2017 07:04:52 -0800

2017-02-07

An item was mapped twice erroneously again, so I had to remove one of the mappings manually:

dspace=# select * from collection2item where item_id = '80278';
  id   | collection_id | item_id
-------+---------------+---------
 92551 |           313 |   80278
 92550 |           313 |   80278
 90774 |          1051 |   80278
(3 rows)
dspace=# delete from collection2item where id = 92551 and item_id = 80278;
DELETE 1

Create issue on GitHub to track the addition of CCAFS Phase II project tags (#301)
Looks like we’ll be using cg.identifier.ccafsprojectpii as the field name

January, 2017

Mon, 02 Jan 2017 10:43:00 +0300

2017-01-02

I checked to see if the Solr sharding task that is supposed to run on January 1st had run and saw there was an error
I tested on DSpace Test as well and it doesn’t work there either
I asked on the dspace-tech mailing list because it seems to be broken, and actually now I’m not sure if we’ve ever had the sharding task run successfully over all these years

December, 2016

Fri, 02 Dec 2016 10:43:00 +0300

2016-12-02

CGSpace was down for five hours in the morning while I was sleeping
While looking in the logs for errors, I see tons of warnings about Atmire MQM:

2016-12-02 03:00:32,352 WARN  com.atmire.metadataquality.batchedit.BatchEditConsumer @ BatchEditConsumer should not have been given this kind of Subject in an event, skipping: org.dspace.event.Event(eventType=CREATE, SubjectType=BUNDLE, SubjectID=70316, ObjectType=(Unknown), ObjectID=-1, TimeStamp=1480647632305, dispatcher=1544803905, detail=[null], transactionID="TX157907838689377964651674089851855413607")
2016-12-02 03:00:32,353 WARN  com.atmire.metadataquality.batchedit.BatchEditConsumer @ BatchEditConsumer should not have been given this kind of Subject in an event, skipping: org.dspace.event.Event(eventType=MODIFY_METADATA, SubjectType=BUNDLE, SubjectID =70316, ObjectType=(Unknown), ObjectID=-1, TimeStamp=1480647632309, dispatcher=1544803905, detail="dc.title", transactionID="TX157907838689377964651674089851855413607")
2016-12-02 03:00:32,353 WARN  com.atmire.metadataquality.batchedit.BatchEditConsumer @ BatchEditConsumer should not have been given this kind of Subject in an event, skipping: org.dspace.event.Event(eventType=ADD, SubjectType=ITEM, SubjectID=80044, Object Type=BUNDLE, ObjectID=70316, TimeStamp=1480647632311, dispatcher=1544803905, detail="THUMBNAIL", transactionID="TX157907838689377964651674089851855413607")
2016-12-02 03:00:32,353 WARN  com.atmire.metadataquality.batchedit.BatchEditConsumer @ BatchEditConsumer should not have been given this kind of Subject in an event, skipping: org.dspace.event.Event(eventType=ADD, SubjectType=BUNDLE, SubjectID=70316, Obje ctType=BITSTREAM, ObjectID=86715, TimeStamp=1480647632318, dispatcher=1544803905, detail="-1", transactionID="TX157907838689377964651674089851855413607")
2016-12-02 03:00:32,353 WARN  com.atmire.metadataquality.batchedit.BatchEditConsumer @ BatchEditConsumer should not have been given this kind of Subject in an event, skipping: org.dspace.event.Event(eventType=MODIFY, SubjectType=ITEM, SubjectID=80044, ObjectType=(Unknown), ObjectID=-1, TimeStamp=1480647632351, dispatcher=1544803905, detail=[null], transactionID="TX157907838689377964651674089851855413607")

I see thousands of them in the logs for the last few months, so it’s not related to the DSpace 5.5 upgrade
I’ve raised a ticket with Atmire to ask
Another worrying error from dspace.log is:

November, 2016

Tue, 01 Nov 2016 09:21:00 +0300

2016-11-01

Add dc.type to the output options for Atmire’s Listings and Reports module (#286)

October, 2016

Mon, 03 Oct 2016 15:53:00 +0300

2016-10-03

Testing adding ORCIDs to a CSV file for a single item to see if the author orders get messed up
Need to test the following scenarios to see how author order is affected:
- ORCIDs only
- ORCIDs plus normal authors
I exported a random item’s metadata as CSV, deleted all columns except id and collection, and made a new coloum called ORCID:dc.contributor.author with the following random ORCIDs from the ORCID registry:

0000-0002-6115-0956||0000-0002-3812-8793||0000-0001-7462-405X

September, 2016

Thu, 01 Sep 2016 15:53:00 +0300

2016-09-01

Discuss helping CCAFS with some batch tagging of ORCID IDs for their authors
Discuss how the migration of CGIAR’s Active Directory to a flat structure will break our LDAP groups in DSpace
We had been using DC=ILRI to determine whether a user was ILRI or not
It looks like we might be able to use OUs now, instead of DCs:

$ ldapsearch -x -H ldaps://svcgroot2.cgiarad.org:3269/ -b "dc=cgiarad,dc=org" -D "admigration1@cgiarad.org" -W "(sAMAccountName=admigration1)"

August, 2016

Mon, 01 Aug 2016 15:53:00 +0300

2016-08-01

Add updated distribution license from Sisay (#259)
Play with upgrading Mirage 2 dependencies in bower.json because most are several versions of out date
Bootstrap is at 3.3.0 but upstream is at 3.3.7, and upgrading to anything beyond 3.3.1 breaks glyphicons and probably more
bower stuff is a dead end, waste of time, too many issues
Anything after Bootstrap 3.3.1 makes glyphicons disappear (HTTP 404 trying to access from incorrect path of fonts)
Start working on DSpace 5.1 → 5.5 port:

$ git checkout -b 55new 5_x-prod
$ git reset --hard ilri/5_x-prod
$ git rebase -i dspace-5.5

July, 2016

Fri, 01 Jul 2016 10:53:00 +0300

2016-07-01

Add dc.description.sponsorship to Discovery sidebar facets and make investors clickable in item view (#232)
I think this query should find and replace all authors that have “,” at the end of their names:

dspacetest=# update metadatavalue set text_value = regexp_replace(text_value, '(^.+?),$', '\1') where metadata_field_id=3 and resource_type_id=2 and text_value ~ '^.+?,$';
UPDATE 95
dspacetest=# select text_value from  metadatavalue where metadata_field_id=3 and resource_type_id=2 and text_value ~ '^.+?,$';
 text_value
------------
(0 rows)

In this case the select query was showing 95 results before the update

June, 2016

Wed, 01 Jun 2016 10:53:00 +0300

2016-06-01

Experimenting with IFPRI OAI (we want to harvest their publications)
After reading the ContentDM documentation I found IFPRI’s OAI endpoint: http://ebrary.ifpri.org/oai/oai.php
After reading the OAI documentation and testing with an OAI validator I found out how to get their publications
This is their publications set: http://ebrary.ifpri.org/oai/oai.php?verb=ListRecords&from=2016-01-01&set=p15738coll2&metadataPrefix=oai_dc
You can see the others by using the OAI ListSets verb: http://ebrary.ifpri.org/oai/oai.php?verb=ListSets
Working on second phase of metadata migration, looks like this will work for moving CPWF-specific data in dc.identifier.fund to cg.identifier.cpwfproject and then the rest to dc.description.sponsorship

May, 2016

Sun, 01 May 2016 23:06:00 +0300

2016-05-01

Since yesterday there have been 10,000 REST errors and the site has been unstable again
I have blocked access to the API now
There are 3,000 IPs accessing the REST API in a 24-hour period!

# awk '{print $1}' /var/log/nginx/rest.log  | uniq | wc -l
3168

April, 2016

Mon, 04 Apr 2016 11:06:00 +0300

2016-04-04

Looking at log file use on CGSpace and notice that we need to work on our cron setup a bit
We are backing up all logs in the log folder, including useless stuff like solr, cocoon, handle-plugin, etc
After running DSpace for over five years I’ve never needed to look in any other log file than dspace.log, leave alone one from last year!
This will save us a few gigs of backup space we’re paying for on S3
Also, I noticed the checker log has some errors we should pay attention to:

March, 2016

Wed, 02 Mar 2016 16:50:00 +0300

2016-03-02

Looking at issues with author authorities on CGSpace
For some reason we still have the index-lucene-update cron job active on CGSpace, but I’m pretty sure we don’t need it as of the latest few versions of Atmire’s Listings and Reports module
Reinstall my local (Mac OS X) DSpace stack with Tomcat 7, PostgreSQL 9.3, and Java JDK 1.7 to match environment on CGSpace server

February, 2016

Fri, 05 Feb 2016 13:18:00 +0300

2016-02-05

Looking at some DAGRIS data for Abenet Yabowork
Lots of issues with spaces, newlines, etc causing the import to fail
I noticed we have a very interesting list of countries on CGSpace:

Not only are there 49,000 countries, we have some blanks (25)…
Also, lots of things like “COTE D`LVOIRE” and “COTE D IVOIRE”

January, 2016

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 13:18:00 +0300

2016-01-13

Move ILRI collection 10568/12503 from 10568/27869 to 10568/27629 using the move_collections.sh script I wrote last year.
I realized it is only necessary to clear the Cocoon cache after moving collections—rather than reindexing—as no metadata has changed, and therefore no search or browse indexes need to be updated.
Update GitHub wiki for documentation of maintenance tasks.

December, 2015

Wed, 02 Dec 2015 13:18:00 +0300

2015-12-02

Replace lzop with xz in log compression cron jobs on DSpace Test—it uses less space:

# cd /home/dspacetest.cgiar.org/log
# ls -lh dspace.log.2015-11-18*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tomcat7 tomcat7 2.0M Nov 18 23:59 dspace.log.2015-11-18
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tomcat7 tomcat7 387K Nov 18 23:59 dspace.log.2015-11-18.lzo
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tomcat7 tomcat7 169K Nov 18 23:59 dspace.log.2015-11-18.xz

November, 2015

Mon, 23 Nov 2015 17:00:57 +0300

2015-11-22

CGSpace went down
Looks like DSpace exhausted its PostgreSQL connection pool
Last week I had increased the limit from 30 to 60, which seemed to help, but now there are many more idle connections:

$ psql -c 'SELECT * from pg_stat_activity;' | grep idle | grep -c cgspace
78