sean.upton@uniontrib.com wrote:

I am running Debian testing (SPARC) with the 2.3.2-2 Zope deb, trying to install ZEO, and am hung up on the storage server install becuase, even in the simplest of cases, I cannot get lib/python/ZEO/start.py to do anything... I get the same issue with ZEO 1.0b1 and 1.0b3. There are a bunch of try: ... except: pass statements in the start.py code, and I'm sure I'm getting hit with one of them; it's too bad there are not more debugging messages in there...

Since there are no tracebacks, below is the best I have (a shell transcript)

Under Debian, Zope is installed at /usr/lib/zope as a program root (and thus ZEO, unpacked here, with ZEO1.0b3/ZEO copied to lib/python, so that there is a lib/python/ZEO). /var/lib/zope is the instance home and contains a var (/var/lib/zope/var) directory with Data.fs, log, and pid files.

Any help/thoughts would be appreciated...

I would probably try to find the errant spot using PDB, e.g., I would drop the following line into the 'main()' function: import pdb; pdb.set_trace() Then, when you run the start script using '-D', the debugger will stop at that point, and you can single step, print variables, etc., using the "standard Python debugger", http://www.python.org/doc/1.5.2p2/lib/module-pdb.html If that doesn't help, or if you've found a bug, then I would ask for further help on the zodb-dev@zope.org list. Tres. -- =============================================================== Tres Seaver tseaver@digicool.com Digital Creations "Zope Dealers" http://www.zope.org