James YES. Thank you!! A tricky side effect I noticed: 1. I created a fresh install of Zope231 with installation username = 'superuser' and passwd = '123' 2. Started the new zope, then entered /manage using this installation login. OK 3. Stopped Zope 4. Copied my old 'Products' folder over plus 'PIL' to new ZSite tree 5. Copied my old [corrupted] Data.fs into the new /var folder 6. Restart Zope 7. Try /manage login .. => now it rejects 'superuser', but accepts my old manager login from the pre-coorupted days [last night].OK Can anyone explain the creation sequence of user permissions for superuser logins and other mamanger logins in Zope 2.3.1? This seems to be related to voodoo installation problems a few __very__ unlucky people have had on Win32. For example: I have been trying to help a new Zope user, Sharlynn <waterstrider@frontier.net> who for 14 days cannot login to /manage after installing Zope. She appears to have exhausted all permutations, though no doubt there is ONE we have not found = The right one! She has posted to this list a couple of times but no any replies yet. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-April/087967.html http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-April/088946.html Please can anyone help her? Thanks - Jason ___________________________________________________________ Jason CUNLIFFE = NOMADICS['Interactive Art and Technology'] ----- Original Message ----- From: <info@sjeems.nl> To: "'Jason Cunliffe'" <jasonic@nomadicsltd.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 2:34 PM Subject: RE: [Zope] Bad File Descriptor error - zope crashes at startup

Hi jason,

The thing they told me to do is quite simple... you just setup a new zope server (reinstall zope) and copy the database (Data.fs from your old zope sites var directory) to the new var direcory...It worked for me....

just make sure you keep a backup of the original Data.fs..... You never know

Hope it helped you!!

James

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]namens Jason Cunliffe Verzonden: dinsdag 24 april 2001 18:00 Aan: zope@zope.org Onderwerp: [Zope] Bad File Descriptor error - zope crashes at startup

Hi

Developing Zope on local laptop [Win98se 192Mb, Zope 2.3.1] before upload to Linux server. A system crash last night and now Zope starts ok, but quits the moment I try to access it from a browser request:=>

self.file.flush() IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor

I remember seeing somewhere some clever rescue advice about this situation, some posts begging for help but can't find any followup answers.

I do not see a dedicated section in the Documentation page at Zope.org suitably titled: HELP, EMERGENCY, CRASH RECOVERY HOWTOS etc..