This is kind of amusing that a document could just sit there so happily. Anyway this picture kind of sums up my problem <<MailHost.jpg>> If I attempt to delete it using the management interface I come up against the same problem as below. It doesn't have a factories() method so can't be deleted.
-----Original Message----- From: Jay, Dylan Sent: Saturday, June 12, 1999 13:11 To: 'zope@zope.org' Cc: 'support@digicool.com' Subject: Re: URGENT: Can't start up zope
-----Original Message----- From: Michel Pelletier Sent: Friday, June 11, 1999 2:42 PM To: 'djay@lucent.com'; zope@zope.org Cc: Support Subject: RE: URGENT: Can't start up zope.
-----Original Message----- From: Dylan Jay [mailto:djay@cse.unsw.edu.au] Sent: Friday, June 11, 1999 2:29 PM To: zope@zope.org Cc: support@digicool.com Subject: URGENT: Can't start up zope.
I was doing some external method work on our production server (silly boy) and something went very wrong. Every time I start zope it will crash. This is both as an NT service and using ZHTTPServer. ZHTTPServer gives a stack dump that mentions initializing products and factories and stuff (unfortunatly my office has a power outage currently so I can't the dump or the data.bbb until 5 hours or so). Using the bbb.py it reports no corruptions so I can only presume the database contains some configurations that screws up zope. To make matters worse our expensive backup solution doesn't seem to have backed up data.bbb.
Can you send us this traceback? Did a power outage occour while the server was running? Did the machine not get shut down properly and this this problem happened? Or did it just happen after a clean shutdown (ie, what was the state of the server before coming up the first time with this error).
No, It occured while testing an external method.
Heres the dump
C:\Program Files\Provision>..\python\python serve.py Traceback (innermost last): File "serve.py", line 100, in ? ZopeHTTPServer.main(args) File "C:\Program Files\Provision\ZopeHTTPServer\ZopeHTTPServer.py", line 498, in main start(module_file,host,port,threading,env) File "C:\Program Files\Provision\ZopeHTTPServer\ZopeHTTPServer.py", line 436, in start set_published_module(module_file,BoboRequestHandler,env) File "C:\Program Files\Provision\ZopeHTTPServer\ZopeHTTPServer.py", line 432, in set_published_module __import__(name) # to catch problem modules right away File "C:\Program Files\Provision\lib\python\Main.py", line 103, in ? Bobobase=OFS.Application.open_bobobase() File "C:\Program Files\Provision\lib\python\OFS\Application.py", line 371, in open_bobobase install_products(app) File "C:\Program Files\Provision\lib\python\OFS\Application.py", line 486, in install_products App.Product.initializeProduct(product, product_name, package_dir, app) File "C:\Program Files\Provision\lib\python\App\Product.py", line 428, in init ializeProduct if old is not None: products._delObject(name) File "C:\Program Files\Provision\lib\python\App\Product.py", line 145, in _del Object for factory in getattr(self, id)._factories(): factory._unregister() AttributeError: _factories
Now that I've had some time to debug it a little, what I discover is this. The above crash happens while trying to initialize the MailHost object. The reason is that getattr(self,id) in the call above is actually a DTML object not a Factory object. Somehow a piece of code got whacked in the wrong place. I can now get the site up by removing the MailHost product. However mail is an extermely important part of the site in that no new user can register without it. When a shut it down and add MailHost back in I get the same problem. What I need to do is somehow take out what is posing as the MailHost Product. I have no idea how to do this.
I will resend this mail to digicool.com with my database
-Michel
What I need to know are a) What the likely causes of a something like I'm describing? I realize I havn't given much to go on, but ANY information you can give me at this point would very very appreciated. b) What tools do I need to modify the data.bbb. I can convert it xml ok but it seems there's no way to convert it back. Is there any tool where I can just roll back the last few transactions? (This may not work actually as it was probably the external method that did the damage).
In case its relevent I guess I should include some detail of the external method I was working on. It was a method to determine if a user had permission to view an object. It looked at a users roles and the roles for the view permission. It would recurse with the parent if the object aquired roles.
Thanks in advance for any ideas anyone has.
Dylan. djay@lucent.com
