I'm not sure whether the collector issue 1164 I posted is simply a missing configuration step on my part. At any rate, I'm still unable to start the current checkout of Zope HEAD. The only edit I make to /var/zope/etc/zope.conf is 'effective-user zuser', and the problem below also occurs if I then bin/runzope as root. Can anyone tell me if I'm missing something, or is this a bug? Thanks. [zuser@laptop Zope]$ ./configure [zuser@laptop Zope]$ make [root@laptop Zope]$ make install [root@laptop var]# /opt/Zope-2.8/bin/mkzopeinstance.py [root@laptop Zope]# chown -R zuser /var/zope/var [root@laptop Zope]# chgrp -R zuser /var/zope/var [zuser@laptop Zope]$ /var/zope/bin/runzope ------ 2004-01-04T23:06:08 INFO(0) ZServer HTTP server started at Sun Jan 4 23:06:08 2004 Hostname: localhost.localdomain Port: 8080 ------ 2004-01-04T23:06:08 INFO(0) ZServer FTP server started at Sun Jan 4 23:06:08 2004 Hostname: laptop Port: 8021 ------ 2004-01-04T23:06:10 DEBUG(-200) FileStorage create storage /var/zope/var/Data.fsTraceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/Zope-2.8/lib/python/Zope/Startup/run.py", line 49, in ? run() File "/opt/Zope-2.8/lib/python/Zope/Startup/run.py", line 19, in run start_zope(opts.configroot) File "/opt/Zope-2.8/lib/python/Zope/Startup/__init__.py", line 50, in start_zope starter.startZope() File "/opt/Zope-2.8/lib/python/Zope/Startup/__init__.py", line 218, in startZope Zope.startup() File "/opt/Zope-2.8/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py", line 46, in startup _startup() File "/opt/Zope-2.8/lib/python/Zope/App/startup.py", line 54, in startup DB = configuration.dbtab.getDatabase('/', is_root=1) File "/opt/Zope-2.8/lib/python/DBTab/DBTab.py", line 96, in getDatabase db = self._createDatabase(name, is_root) File "/opt/Zope-2.8/lib/python/DBTab/DBTab.py", line 113, in _createDatabase db = factory.open() File "/opt/Zope-2.8/lib/python/Zope/Startup/datatypes.py", line 172, in open DB = self.createDB() File "/opt/Zope-2.8/lib/python/Zope/Startup/datatypes.py", line 169, in createDB return ZODBDatabase.open(self) File "/opt/Zope-2.8/lib/python/ZODB/config.py", line 101, in open version_cache_size=section.version_cache_size) File "/opt/Zope-2.8/lib/python/ZODB/DB.py", line 98, in __init__ storage.store('\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0', None, file.getvalue(), '', t) File "/opt/Zope-2.8/lib/python/ZODB/FileStorage.py", line 791, in store newserial=self._serial AttributeError: FileStorage instance has no attribute '_serial' [zuser@laptop var]$ ls -l /var/zope/var total 24 -rw-rw-r-- 1 zuser zuser 4 Jan 4 23:06 Data.fs -rw-rw-r-- 1 zuser zuser 103 Jan 4 23:06 Data.fs.index -rw-rw-r-- 1 zuser zuser 5 Jan 4 23:06 Data.fs.lock -rw-rw-r-- 1 zuser zuser 0 Jan 4 23:06 Data.fs.tmp -rw-r--r-- 1 zuser zuser 299 Jan 4 23:01 README.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 zuser zuser 4 Jan 4 23:06 Z2.lock -rw-rw-r-- 1 zuser zuser 4 Jan 4 23:06 Z2.pid