qtSwordPluginWorker - File Not Found During Local Transfer

[Bronson Chapman]

Hello,

I'm currently troubleshooting an issue with getting Archivematica to successfully upload/display a DIP on Atom. I'm hoping someone can help confirm whether this is a configuration problem or a known issue with the SWORD deposit process.

Environment Details:

• OS: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

• Archivematica: 1.17.1

• Atom (AtoM): 2.8.1 - 193

• Storage Service: 0.23.0

Local server setup (nginx):

• Atom: http://localhost:3000

• Archivematica: http://localhost:80

• Storage Service: http://localhost:8000

In Archivematica, the transfer and ingest processes complete successfully with no errors, and Archivematica is able to find the Atom slug and begin the DIP upload. However, the qtSwordPluginWorker fails with the following error log:

[info] [2025-08-08 09:20:30] Job 854 "qtSwordPluginWorker": Job started.
[info] [2025-08-08 09:20:30] Job 854 "qtSwordPluginWorker": Parameters: {"format":"http:\/\/purl.org\/net\/sword-types\/METSArchivematicaDIP","location":"file:\/\/\/fpcc-test-004-fe5e17e6-1c96-49eb-b723-b7c5fb1875fc","suggested_name":null,"objectId":"834","name":"qtSwordPluginWorker","id":"854"}
[info] [2025-08-08 09:20:30] Job 854 "qtSwordPluginWorker": A package was deposited by reference.
[info] [2025-08-08 09:20:30] Job 854 "qtSwordPluginWorker": Location: file:///fpcc-test-004-fe5e17e6-1c96-49eb-b723-b7c5fb1875fc
[info] [2025-08-08 09:20:30] Job 854 "qtSwordPluginWorker": Processing...
[info] [2025-08-08 09:20:30] Job 854 "qtSwordPluginWorker": Object slug: fpcc-test
[info] [2025-08-08 09:20:30] Job 854 "qtSwordPluginWorker": Processing complete, deleting "/home/archivematica/atom_sword_deposit/fpcc-test-004-fe5e17e6-1c96-49eb-b723-b7c5fb1875fc"
[err] [2025-08-08 09:20:30] Job 854 "qtSwordPluginWorker": Exception: File not found: /home/archivematica/atom_sword_deposit/fpcc-test-004-fe5e17e6-1c96-49eb-b723-b7c5fb1875fc
[err] [2025-08-08 09:20:30] Job 854 "qtSwordPluginWorker": File: /usr/share/nginx/atom/lib/AccessToMemory/Path.php
[err] [2025-08-08 09:20:30] Job 854 "qtSwordPluginWorker": Line: 152

Archivematica AtoM DIP Upload Configuration:

• Upload URL: http://localhost:3000/index.php

• Login email / password: confirmed correct for Atom admin user

• AtoM version selected: 2.x

• Rsync target / command: None

• Debug mode: Enabled

• REST API key: confirmed correct

• SWORD deposit directory: /home/archivematica/atom_sword_deposit (Configured following the guidance at https://www.accesstomemory.org/en/docs/2.8/user-manual/administer/settings/#sword-directory)

I believe the issue is with my SWORD deposit directory, is this the correct location to find the file for a local transfer without rsync? If so, is it possible the file is being deleted prematurely before Atom can process it?

Thanks in advance for your time and any guidance.

Cheers,
Bronson

[Douglas Cerna]

Hello,

Could you show a long list of your /home/archivematica and /home/archivematica/atom_sword_deposit directories? Like this:

ls -ld /home/archivematica/ /home/archivematica/atom_sword_deposit

This doesn't show the contents of the directories. I'd like to see the owners of both and their permissions.

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[Bronson Chapman]

Hi Douglas, I appreciate your help! Here are the lists you requested:

ls -ld /home/archivematica/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug  5 02:22 /home/archivematica/


ls -ld /home/archivematica/atom_sword_deposit/
drwxrwx---+ 3 archivematica www-data 4096 Aug  5 07:23 /home/archivematica/atom_sword_deposit/

Cheers,
Bronson

[Douglas Cerna]

Hello Bronson,

Those permissions look fine to me.

This part of your error:

[err] [2025-08-08 09:20:30] Job 854 "qtSwordPluginWorker": Exception: File not found: /home/archivematica/atom_sword_deposit/fpcc-test-004-fe5e17e6-1c96-49eb-b723-b7c5fb1875fc

made me wonder if your issue was similar to what I saw when I was working on https://github.com/artefactual/deploy-pub/pull/162. In my case the /home/archivematica directory was set as 0750 which prevented the www-data user from accessing it even when it had write permissions on the /home/archivematica/atom_sword_deposit/ directory.

But that doesn't seem to be your case. Hopefully someone in the group can suggest a solution.

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[Bronson Chapman]

Hello, 

I just wanted to give an update after I had (admittedly with a hack) solved my issue. For some reason the DIP was just simply not being found/moved to the Atom SWORD deposit directory, so I had to create a bash script to automate the process of moving the stored DIP to the SWORD directory, and setting correct permissions such the the DIP could be manipulated by Archivematica/Atom. Although this process requires 2 ingests, it successfully displayed media to Atom and the qtSwordPluginWorker completed successfully.