Thanks. I was not aware of fstest.py, but tried it and it reported no problems. So the problem must be related to how Plone was upgraded. The log file is a web access log and does not show service or database events. The warn and messages logs also contain nothing. Btw, the machine was on Plone RC2 not RC1. Any more suggestions welcome. Gerhard Paul Winkler wrote:

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:56:09PM +0200, Gerhard Venter wrote:

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When I start Zope it runs for a few seconds and then the process goes dead.

What do the logs say?

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This happened after I installed the 1.0 version of Plone (replacing RC1). Before doing this I backed up the /zope/var folder (but while Zope was running -not sure if that was wrong). Since I previously restarted Zope, I also changed the host name of the machine, and a few things relating to mail. I'm not sure what other changes my colleagues may have made. To fix the problem, I truncated the database as described in http://www.zope.org/Members/itamar/CorruptedZODB until it was reduced from 56 MB to 7 MB to no avail.

are you just guessing that the database is corrupted? did you run utilities/ZODBTools/fstest.py?

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