CGSpace Notes

Documenting day-to-day work on the CGSpace repository.

December, 2020

2020-12-01

  • Atmire responded about the issue with duplicate data in our Solr statistics
    • They noticed that some records in the statistics-2015 core haven’t been migrated with the AtomicStatisticsUpdateCLI tool yet and assumed that I haven’t migrated any of the records yet
    • That’s strange, as I checked all ten cores and 2015 is the only one with some unmigrated documents, as according to the cua_version field
    • I started processing those (about 411,000 records):
$ chrt -b 0 dspace dsrun com.atmire.statistics.util.update.atomic.AtomicStatisticsUpdateCLI -t 12 -c statistics-2015
  • AReS went down when the renew-letsencrypt service stopped the angular_nginx container in the pre-update hook and failed to bring it back up
    • I ran all system updates on the host and rebooted it and AReS came back up OK

2020-12-02

  • Udana emailed me yesterday to ask why the CGSpace usage statistics were showing “No Data”
    • I noticed a message in the Solr Admin UI that one of the statistics cores failed to load, but it is up and I can query it…
    • Nevertheless, I restarted Tomcat a few times to see if all cores would come up without an error message, but had no success (despite that all cores ARE up and I can query them, sigh)
    • I think I will move all the Solr yearly statistics back into the main statistics core
  • Start testing export/import of yearly Solr statistics data into the main statistics core on DSpace Test, for example:
$ ./run.sh -s http://localhost:8081/solr/statistics-2010 -a export -o statistics-2010.json -k uid
$ ./run.sh -s http://localhost:8081/solr/statistics -a import -o statistics-2010.json -k uid
$ curl -s "http://localhost:8081/solr/statistics-2010/update?softCommit=true" -H "Content-Type: text/xml" --data-binary "<delete><query>*:*</query></delete>"
  • I deployed Tomcat 7.0.107 on DSpace Test (CGSpace is still Tomcat 7.0.104)
  • I finished migrating all the statistics from the yearly shards back to the main core

2020-12-05

  • I deleted all the yearly statistics shards and restarted Tomcat on DSpace Test (linode26)

2020-12-06

  • Looking into the statistics on DSpace Test after I migrated them back to the main core
    • All stats are working as expected… indexing time for the DSpace Statistics API is the same… and I don’t even see a difference in the JVM or memory stats in Munin other than a minor jump last week when I was processing them
  • I will migrate them on CGSpace too I think
    • First I will start with the statistics-2010 and statistics-2015 cores because they were the ones that were failing to load recently (despite actually being available in Solr WTF)

Error message in Solr admin UI about the statistics-2010 core failing to load

  • First the 2010 core:
$ chrt -b 0 ./run.sh -s http://localhost:8081/solr/statistics-2010 -a export -o statistics-2010.json -k uid
$ chrt -b 0 ./run.sh -s http://localhost:8081/solr/statistics -a import -o statistics-2010.json -k uid
$ curl -s "http://localhost:8081/solr/statistics-2010/update?softCommit=true" -H "Content-Type: text/xml" --data-binary "<delete><query>*:*</query></delete>"
  • Judging by the DSpace logs all these cores had a problem starting up in the last month:
# grep -rsI "Unable to create core" [dspace]/log/dspace.log.2020-* | grep -o -E "statistics-[0-9]+" | sort | uniq -c
     24 statistics-2010
     24 statistics-2015
     18 statistics-2016
      6 statistics-2018
  • The message is always this:
org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.HttpSolrServer$RemoteSolrException: Error CREATEing SolrCore 'statistics-2016': Unable to create core [statistics-2016] Caused by: Lock obtain timed out: NativeFSLock@/[dspace]/solr/statistics-2016/data/index/write.lock
  • I will migrate all these cores and see if it makes a difference, then probably end up migrating all of them
    • I removed the statistics-2010, statistics-2015, statistics-2016, and statistics-2018 cores and restarted Tomcat and all the statistics cores came up OK and the CUA statistics are OK!