I added a package to the Products directory today. When I tried to restart, I got a Proxy error and things went downhill quickly. We are using debian testing (running zope on port 9673) Zope 2.6.2 Starting it and restarting it give differing errors: collab:/var/log/zope/default# /etc/init.d/zope start Starting Zope instance default... failed: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found Waiting instances in late: done. default: start: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found collab:/var/log/zope/default# /etc/init.d/zope restart Restarting Zope instance default... failed: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'rfind' Waiting instances in late: done. default: restart: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'rfind' Does anyone know what "'NoneType' object has no attribute 'rfind'" means? How about "coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found"? Can anyone give me a clue as to how I can get zope running again? Thanks! dennis - have gudulka, will travel http://KafanaKlub.com