On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 01:10:34PM -0400, Dan Gaibel wrote:
We're running on RedHat 7.3, Zope 2.5.1 with Python 2.1.3.
The only change I can think of was that we created a "zope" user to install the instance. It looks like the zope user had been removed. Creating a new zope user seemed to fix the problem. Does this make any sense?
maybe, it could have been a permission problem but I'd expect some error message like "Permission denied." The reason I mentioned RH is that I could imagine problems if you were using an older RedHat and upgraded glibc and ran into the oft-reported NPTL problems (google for LD_ASSUME_KERNEL for more info). Just a guess. SOunds like that wasn't relevant.
We've switched to the backup server, and we're calling the problem an "opportunity" to upgrade to 2.7.1. Hopefully we won't run into an entirely new set of problems with that.
If you have a bunch of third-party products, I would take some time to be sure that they all still work with 2.7.x. E.g. when I moved from zope 2.6.2 to 2.7.0, I had to upgrade LocalFS to localfs-1.2-andreas. I forget if there were other upgrades. And due to the many changes in configuration and installation, I found it to be a more involved upgraded than e.g. 2.5 to 2.6. Definitely worth it though, I love 2.7. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com