hi previously, i reported that my zope / zeo clients hangs. following the howto by evan, i managed to get these when i attach to the 2nd zope pid -- Loaded symbols for /usr/local/Zope-2.6-cvs/lib/python/Products/PluginIndexes/TextIndex/Splitter/ZopeSplitter/ZopeSplitter.so 0x0806fb42 in Py_GetProgramFullPath () at eval.c:41 41 eval.c: No such file or directory. in eval.c and on another zope instance, i have this Loaded symbols for /usr/local/Zope-2.6-cvs/lib/python/Products/PluginIndexes/TextIndex/Splitter/ZopeSplitter/ZopeSplitter.so 0x4008caa5 in __sigsuspend (set=0xbffff0a0) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigsuspend.c:45 45 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigsuspend.c: No such file or directory. in ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigsuspend.c -- all other symbols loaded ok, but not that particular one. and further, when i looked at the particular thread (gdb) info threads [New Thread 2050 (LWP 22622)] [New Thread 3075 (LWP 22623)] [New Thread 4100 (LWP 22624)] [New Thread 5125 (LWP 22625)] 6 Thread 5125 (LWP 22625) 0x4008caa5 in __sigsuspend (set=0x42d7bc6c) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigsuspend.c:45 5 Thread 4100 (LWP 22624) 0x4008caa5 in __sigsuspend (set=0x4257ba4c) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigsuspend.c:45 4 Thread 3075 (LWP 22623) 0x4008caa5 in __sigsuspend (set=0x41d7aefc) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigsuspend.c:45 3 Thread 2050 (LWP 22622) 0x4008caa5 in __sigsuspend (set=0x4157c15c) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigsuspend.c:45 2 Thread 2049 (LWP 22595) 0x401439f7 in __poll (fds=0x8b6e61c, nfds=1, timeout=2000) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c:63 1 Thread 1024 (LWP 22594) 0x0806fb42 in Py_GetProgramFullPath () at eval.c:41 and in the many instances i looked, the running thread that seemed to hang zope is the one with Py_GetProgramFullPath() i have no real experience with gdb, and i can never get the traceback as suggested by evan's howto. but this is the data that i got. any help appreciated thanks