thanks Kevin, that seems to have did the trick. the deal on my server is that tmp, /var/tmp, and /usr/tmp are all linked to one directory. this required me to create /home/httpd/tmp and point tempfile.py to it because the disk for all the other tmp stuff is quite full. time for bigger drives. -<mike>- ps: in the process of following your suggestion i found another problem and fixed it, so thanks again! -----Original Message----- From: kteague@stormix.com [mailto:kteague@stormix.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 11:00 PM To: michaelangelo@webmind.com; zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] the day of zope headaches
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such a very helpful message. this happened while reindexing the ZCatalog
View the HTML source for the error page - the Python traceback contained in there will be more helpful. However, the last time I had an IOError while re-indexing a ZCatalog was when Python was ran out of space in the /tmp dir (4600 objects, 100 MB /tmp partition). What I did was edit Python's tempfile.py file (contained at /usr/lib/python1.5/tempfile.py on Debian systems) from: attempdirs = ['/usr/tmp', '/tmp', pwd] To: attempdirs = ['/var/tmp', '/usr/tmp', '/tmp', pwd] -- Kevin Teague, Zopista http://www.stormix.com