Eric Banford said:

At 03:21 PM 10/3/2005, John Poltorak wrote:

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Following a server restart in the last couple of days I have been unable to get Zope started.

Is there anything in particular I should check for?

Until the reboot Zope had been running for months without a problem, although it may not have been stopped correctly before the reboot. Should I need to delete any lockfiles that may have been left in existance or should they get deleted on restart?

Have you tried restarting via the C:\Plone 2\Data\bin\runzope.bat file? This will open a command prompt and show you startup messages, including any errors that cannot be resolved.

Or, if you're on linux / unix, the equivalent is: path_to_your_instance/bin/runzope or, equivalently: path_to_your_instance/bin/zopectl fg -- Paul Winkler

John Poltorak wrote:

running 'sh zopectl start' appears to work but then Zope quickly falls over.

try ./runzope and tell us what happens.