Dear Zope list, I have a serious problem with Zope. Every time a certain page is requested by a web browser for the second or third time (first time always works) the whole Zope server crashes :-( The only thing special about this page are calls of external Python methods from a custom extension. These methods don't do any special magic. They just open a MySQL database (using the MySQLdb module version 0.9.1) and return some HTML output. I was able to catch a somewhat informative error message when Zope was running in debug mode: 2006-03-27T12:18:57 PANIC(300) z2 Startup exception Traceback (innermost last): File /opt/zope/z2.py, line 495, in ? (Object: ZLogger) File <string>, line 1, in ? File /opt/zope/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 37, in ? File /opt/zope/lib/python/ZODB/FileStorage.py, line 202, in __init__ File /opt/zope/lib/python/ZODB/lock_file.py, line 29, in lock_file StorageSystemError: Could not lock the database file. There must be another process that has opened the file. Operating system is SuSE Linux 8.0, Zope version is 2.5.0, Python 2.2, MySQL 3.23.48. I know, pretty old but upgrading any of these software components should be avoided due to emerging costs unless absolutely necessary! So if you have any idea how to fix this problem besides "upgrade to the newest versions" I would be glad to here from you! Thank you very much! -- Sincerely yours Sven Jacobs