I have an old client getting a strange error message when they try to stop the Zope service on NT. The message is: Services Could not stop the Zope (Production) service. Error 0109: The pipe has been ended. I believe they are NT 4 SP 6 and the Zope version they have is at least 8 months old. They are also using SQL server 7. Even though the error message indicates that the service cannot be stopped, after I click OK on the error window, the Status column in the Services window goes blank next to Zope (Production) as opposed to "Started." And, the Start button is highlighted rather than the Stop button. One other time this happened I successfully logged onto the website so I suspect the Service is in fact not stopped despite what the Services window indicates. Also, when I have trying to restore a database at this point I have received the error message regarding to the database exclusive access. "Database in Use. the system administrator must have exclusive use of the database to run the restore operation. Backup or restore operation terminating abnormally." The client realized (from Task Manager Process tab) that the process python.exe was still running even the Zope (Production) service had been stopped. They highlighted python.exe and tried to end the process by clicking the End Process button without success. What has worked once before and worked again today is the following: After clicking OK on the Services error message above, I click on the Start button to start Zope again, then click on the Stop button to stop the service. The second time I try to stop the service I do not get an error message and I have no problem restoring gp or starting Zope again. Any help or clues to resolving the issue is much appreciated. Dale Kiefling --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- dek@outformations.com Outformations, Inc. http://www.outformations.com 939 61st Street, #13 415 831-8776 Voice Oakland, CA 94608 510 655-7133 Fax -- Collaborative Design and Software Development --