broken Return to Pool button in MyDSpace > Workflow Items

[Amy Ball Wicklund]

In testing for our upgrade to DSpace 9, we've discovered that the "Return to Pool" button in MyDSpace Workflow items is not working properly. The console reports that the delete action returned successfully, the user gets a green "operation successful" confirmation but the item remains claimed by the user, even after page refresh, even after logging out and logging back in. 

The other options -- Edit, View, Approve, and Reject -- all function normally. 

Has anyone else run into this? Any advice for things to try or investigate?

Thank you!

~Amy

[Amy Ball Wicklund]

Update: Problem solved! This turned out to be a problem with Tomcat's AJP connector. It affected not only the "return to pool" functionality but other DELETE operations as well (deleting users from groups, deleting old processes, deleting one's own submissions from MyDSpace, and more). We reinstalled using the http proxy instead of the AJP connector, and the problem went away. From now on during testing we'll double-check to make sure that delete operations actually stick.

Hope this helps someone else.