Steve, Thanks very much for all the help. In the end I exported out all the objects I wanted, then I reimported them into a clean Data.fs If I get time I will experiment with your stuff to find out more. I kept the old Data.fs just in case. I assume this is some sort of bug. Regards Tom => -----Original Message----- => From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Steve => Spicklemire => Sent: Saturday, 11 August 2001 3:11 PM => To: tom@cameron.to; zope@zope.org => Subject: Re: [Zope] Data.fs gone crazy => => => => => Hi Tom, => => I just constructed this scenario: => => 1) Install a Python Product that is a base class for some ZClasses. => => 2) Install some ZClasses that inherit from the Python Product class => => 3) Delete the Python Product and the ZClasses => => You may now have (I did) some "ghost" zclass entries in the Product => registry. The only way I found to get rid of them was to run the code => below. (stop Zope, cd to 'lib/python', execute fixit.py from the => command line.) You might try running it a few times with the last two => lines commented out to make sure your only removing the zclasses you => mean to. You might also make a backup of your Data.fs before you do => anything else. I have no idea if this has any other nasty side effects, => but it worked for me. => => Good Luck! => -steve => => fixit.py: => => import Zope => => x = Zope.app( ) => => theList = list( x._getProductRegistryData('zclasses')) => => newList = [] => for d in theList: => if d['id'] == 'the name of your zclass': => print "Skipping .. ", d => else: => newList.append(d) => => print newList => => x._setProductRegistryData( 'zclasses', tuple(newList )) => => get_transaction().commit() => => => => Tom Cameron wrote: => > => > Steve, => > I am certain there are no instances. What do you mean by => "registered with => > the system". How do you "unregister" it? BTW, POPMailBase is a Python => > Product. I have deleted it from the Products directory and => restarted Zope. => > What more should I do? => > => > Tom => > => > => -----Original Message----- => > => From: Steve Spicklemire [mailto:steve@spvi.com] => > => Sent: Friday, 10 August 2001 11:06 PM => > => To: tom@mooball.com; Sebastien Bigaret => > => Cc: Steve Spicklemire; zope@zope.org => > => Subject: Re: [Zope] Data.fs gone crazy => > => => > => => > => Hi Tom, => > => => > => I think the clue is here. The ZClass that went with => POPMailBase is still => > => registered with the system, and (maybe?) there are some instances => > => around? Or maybe the ZClass just needs to get => "unregistered". Have you => > => checked for abandoned instances of the POPMail product? => > => => > => -steve => > => => > => => > => On Friday, August 10, 2001, at 06:01 AM, Sebastien Bigaret wrote: => > => >> File D:\Zope\23229D~1.3\lib\python\Shared\DC\ZRDB\DA.py, => > => line 544, in => > => >> manage_product_zclass_info => > => >> (Object: insertintolists) => > => >> File D:\Zope\23229D~1.3\lib\python\ZODB\Connection.py, => line 533, in => > => >> setstate => > => >> ImportError: (see above) => > => >> => > => >> POPMailBase is a completely different Product that I => removed a few => > => >> days ago. => > => >> How could the two be related and how do I fix this mess? => > => >> => > => >> My Database connection keeps dying now and I cant seem => to get it to => > => >> work => > => >> anymore. => > => >> => > => >> This is a Windows 2000 machine zope 2.3.2 => > => >> => > => >> Tom => > => > => > => > => > => > _______________________________________________ => > => > Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org => > => > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope => > => > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** => > => > (Related lists - => > => > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce => > => > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) => > => => => _______________________________________________ => Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org => http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope => ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** => (Related lists - => http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce => http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) =>