Hi folks, This is my first post to this list and I'm desperate for help. I'm running Zope 2.6.1 with Python 2.1.3. My Zope instance died today and won't come back. When I try to start it, I get: 2005-08-27T20:58:15 PANIC(300) z2 Startup exception Traceback (innermost last): File /home/lrc/z2.py, line 497, in ? File <string>, line 1, in ? File /home/lrc/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 37, in ? File /home/lrc/lib/python/ZODB/FileStorage.py, line 213, in __init__ File /home/lrc/lib/python/ZODB/lock_file.py, line 33, in lock_file StorageSystemError: Could not lock the database file. There must be another process that has opened the file. <p> ------ 2005-08-27T20:58:15 PROBLEM(100) zdaemon zdaemon: Sat Aug 27 16:58:15 2005: The kid, 1657, died on me. At first I deleted Data.fs.lock and cannot find any process that would suggest zope is running. I've also played with renaming various .pid files in hopes of an answer. I'm stumped and in very hot water right now. Any help or guidance would be very appreciated. Thanks, Dan