Importing LCIA methods into openLCA

Question

Hello,

I am a new user for openlca.

I already succeed to import methods database. 

However, when I tried to import LCIA method and  I follow this procedure: file > import > select "import entire database" > from exported zolca files > select the file on my computer > Finish.

A message is displayed : "An error occured - database import failed"
When I open the error details : this what I see :

Time	Thread	Level	Category	Message
0	main	INFO	org.openlca	Log-level=INFO
16	main	INFO	org.openlca.julia.Julia	Try to load Julia libs and bindings from C:\Users\tan.s\AppData\Local\openLCA
16	main	INFO	org.openlca.julia.Julia	load module OPEN_BLAS with library C:\Users\tan.s\AppData\Local\openLCA\libjolcablas.dll
16	main	INFO	org.openlca.julia.Julia	Library C:\Users\tan.s\AppData\Local\openLCA\libjolcaumf.dll is missing; Julia bindings for UMFPACK not loaded
16	main	INFO	org.openlca.julia.Julia	Julia bindings loaded
16	main	INFO	org.openlca.app.App	Loaded Julia-BLAS solver as default matrix solver
16	Worker-0	INFO	org.openlca.app.devtools.python.Python	initialize Python interpreter
10887416	ModalContext	INFO	org.openlca.app.db.DatabaseList	write database configurations to C:\Users\tan.s\openLCA-data-1.4\databases.json
10888139	ModalContext	INFO	org.openlca.core.database.derby.DerbyDatabase	initialize database folder C:\Users\tan.s\openLCA-data-1.4\databases\FirstDatabase, create=false
11107789	ModalContext	INFO	org.openlca.core.database.derby.DerbyDatabase	initialize database folder C:\Users\tan.s\AppData\Local\Temp\207a0a0a-b657-4d3b-acb5-106c8db9ab0a, create=false
11108230	JavaFX Application Thread	ERROR	org.openlca.app.wizards.io.DbImportWizard	database import failed
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException       at org.openlca.app.wizards.io.DbImportWizard$ImportDispatch.run(DbImportWizard.java:149)       at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:119)      Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: A transaction is already running       at org.openlca.app.db.IndexUpdater.beginTransaction(IndexUpdater.java:16)       at org.openlca.app.wizards.io.DbImportWizard$ImportDispatch.run(DbImportWizard.java:138)       ... 1 more
11137909	ModalContext	INFO	org.openlca.core.database.derby.DerbyDatabase	initialize database folder C:\Users\tan.s\AppData\Local\Temp\bbb6a2bb-0bcb-47a6-9bf5-9ef623ad10ee, create=false
11138341	JavaFX Application Thread	ERROR	org.openlca.app.wizards.io.DbImportWizard	database import failed

Please help me!!

Regards,

Shi

Comments

Hello, yes, it could be nice to know the solution for this problem, because I'm having the same problem. Regards, Nuno Lapa

Answer 1

Apologies for the inconvenience! This seems to be a problem with the new openLCA version which we will fix as soon as possible! In the meantime,

1) Download the methods as usual and import them into openLCA via right-click restore; open the database which contains only the methods and export the database as JSON-LD file; import the exported methods into an existing database

2) Use openLCA 1.7.2 https://sourceforge.net/projects/openlca/files/openlca_framework/

Of course we will provide a fixed openLCA 1.7.3 version as soon as possible!

Comments

This has been fixed! http://www.openlca.org/openlca-1-7-4/