First, I would recommend against changing anything in any file at this point except configuration files. Next, verify that the correct python version is being used. It's easy to have two pythons side-by-side on the same linux system. If you built Zope from source, you (probably) should build python from source as well. However, if you used an installable package for Zope, I would recommend staying with whatever version pairing of Zope/Python that your Linux distribution has by default. It's simpler that way, and will probably solve your problem. I know that I've built Zope before where it's pointed at the wrong python version, and got things all screwed up for me. Use "`which python` -V" (those are backtics) to figure out the version that your $PATH points to by default. If you *are* building from source, verify that you used --with-python="/path/to/python2.3.5" when you ran the configure script for Zope. The configure script should(?) tell you if there's a problem with any module dependencies. Again, if building Zope from source, it's probably best that you use a python built from source as well. Good Luck! fm On 12/14/05, Qass <qassair@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi:

I'm new to zope and yesterday installed zope 2.8.4 on a linux system running python 2.3.5 Having followed installation instructions I got to the point of 'zopectl start' and got the following error message while trying both 'runzope' and 'zopectl'.

I've tried installing different versions of Zope and get the same error (error absent with Zope 3). At one point, Zope did start (I moved it to a different port) but when I tried installing Plone in the Products directory of the zope instance, the 'Plone Site' did not show up in the drop down menu on the right hand side of the ZMI. Which is why I decided to reinstall and have been getting errors since. I haven't messed around with the Python installation at all.

In this latest install I ran 'make instance' intead of 'make install' just to see if I would get the same error as I did yesterday when I had an instance of Zope running and I did.

Any help in trying to fix this would be highly appreciated. I've tried changing PYTHONPATH in the zopectl file but that just leads to more and more errors.

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/blah//Zope-2.8.4-final/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/run.py", line 56, in ? run() File "/blah/Zope-2.8.4-final/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/run.py", line 17, in run import Zope2.Startup File "/blah/Zope-2.8.4-final/lib/python/Zope2/__init__.py", line 60, in ? from Zope2.Startup.run import configure File "/network/share/home/sra/Zope-2.8.4-final /lib/python/Zope2/Startup/__init__.py", line 24, in ? import ZConfig File "/blah/Zope-2.8.4-final/lib/python/ZConfig/__init__.py", line 21, in ? from ZConfig.loader import loadConfig, loadConfigFile File "/blah/Zope-2.8.4-final/lib/python/ZConfig/loader.py", line 23, in ? import ZConfig.datatypes File "/blah/Zope-2.8.4-final/lib/python/ZConfig/datatypes.py", line 19, in ? import datetime File "/blah/Zope-2.8.4-final/lib/python/DateTime/__init__.py", line 13, in ? from DateTime import DateTime File "/blah/Zope-2.8.4-final/lib/python/DateTime/DateTime.py", line 21, in ? from datetime import datetime File "/blah/Zope-2.8.4-final/lib/python/DateTime/DateTime.py", line 21, in ? from datetime import datetime ImportError: cannot import name datetime

Thank you very much for your help.

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