Dear List, since two days I am now banging my head against a seemingly simple Zope setup which just does not want to work. I need to install a Zope server with to instances running against the same object database via ZEO. This same setup is working flawlessly in our development environment. To make a clean install, I started from scratch and downloaded Zope-2.6.2b2 (the full Linux binary version) and ZEO-2.0.1b1. I set up ZEO to run from the Zope-2.6.2-Diretory and creatade a new Directory for the first Zope instance. Starting the instance without ZEO works flawlessly, a new Data.fs is created in INSTANCE_HOME/var. Starting ZEO also does not produce any errors neither on the console nor in the ZEO_EVENTS.log and a new Data.fs is created in ZOPE_HOME/var, where ZEO is running. Now, when I install the custom_zodb.py into the INSTANCE_HOME, the Zope server still comes up against ZEO. I can watch the Data.fs in ZOPE_HOME grow as the initial objects are created. But the first request (whatever it is, e.g. http://localhost or http://localhost/manage) blocks indefinitely. According to top, Zope is idling along and doing nothing and according to ethereal, the request does not trigger *any* traffic to the ZEO server and no response is sent back to the web-browser. I tried to find the place, where the systems is blocking but got nowhere. I used sys.settrace to trace all function calls only to find, the sys.settrace is thread specific ;-/ no dice. I am now utterly helpless and have no idea how to go on. Hopefully someone on this mailing-list can shed a light on this problem. -- Stefan Bund, Dipl.Phys. a r T e c _____ Entwicklung, Administration visual solutions / | /| |----/_| sbund@artec-berlin.com | / | / Fon: 030 / 884684-0 | Fax: 030 / 884684-15 |/___|/ Gottfried-von-Cramm-Weg 35-37 | Berlin | 14193 | http://www.artec-berlin.com