I think in rolling off the whole procedure. 1)Downloading new Zope-2.6.2-src compiling starting without Instance_Home -> everything fine 2)Restore a root.fs-backup in the Instance_Home. starting in Instance_Home (with the whole args incl. -D) -> startup-Exception 3)Get rid of all args in the start-command starting in Instance_Home -> Zope cames up -> in the log the "Module not found" seems to change its result from an z2-Exection to a ERROR(200) 4)Successively i added my arguments and looked for the startup behaviour. The "-D" lets the startup end in an "z2 Startup exception". Putting -D out of the args -> startup-Exception 5)By following the zope startup-source to figure out the why i completely lost my nerves. In my humble opionon the -D option is responsible for the crash, but why, i don't know ... Ralph sorry, i suppose you have not followed the whole thread because i make a mistake by posting to the right one in the middle of the discussion :-( I try to outline what i've done until yet. My intension was to upgrade Zope-2.4.2 to Zope-2.6.2. I installed the Zope-2.6.2-src compiled it and started it without Instance_Home. Anything was fine until i tried to to use 2.6.2 with Instance_Home. I got the z2-startup-exception. (Module Splitter not found) -> although it is there! First i tought that something with the root.fs is wrong so In mind that i was succesful in starting Zope in that Configuartion i unpacked an backup of an earlier root.fs played around in the start-script in Instance_Home. Beginning with no args in the startline,successively i added my arguments and looked for the startup behaviour. Reaching "-D" lets the startup end in an "z2 Startup exception". -----Originalnachricht----- Von: Chris Withers An: Arenz, Ralph Cc: 'Jamie Heilman'; 'zope@zope.org' Gesendet: 25.09.2003 15:07 Betreff: z2 startup exception, only with -D? Arenz, Ralph wrote:

Finally startline is now: exec $PYTHON \ $PYTHONHOME1/z2.py \ -X -t 10 -u zope -d [nameserver-ip] "$@"

Error producing startline: exec $PYTHON \ $PYTHONHOME1/z2.py \ -D -X -t 10 -u zope -d [nameserver-ip] "$@"

strange, isn't it?

If that's the only difference, then yes, very... How have you checked that the removal of the -D was the only change? Chris