I tried once again to stop and restart zope and it started up fine. Apache would still not start, giving the same error message: Syntax error on line 260 of /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf: FastCgiIpcDir /tmp: can't create dynamic directory "/tmp/dynamic": access for server (uid -1, gid -1) failed: read not allowed /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started I then commented out the lines in httpd.conf referring to FastCGI, restarted Apache, with Zope running and everything seems to work fine. I don't understand. Michael I just experienced a strange problem. I'm running Zope 2.44, Python 2.13 and Apache 1.3.22. I was attempting to run my RDFSummaryUpdate script: <dtml-with RDF> <dtml-in "objectValues('RDF Summary')"> <dtml-with sequence-item> <dtml-call "update()"> </dtml-with> </dtml-in> </dtml-with> and it apparently hosed Zope. It appeared to be locked up as it was not responding to anything any longer. I tried stopping and re-starting Zope and it made no difference. I tried stopping and restarting Apache and I got this message: Syntax error on line 260 of /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf: FastCgiIpcDir /tmp: can't create dynamic directory "/tmp/dynamic": access for server (uid -1, gid -1) failed: read not allowed /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started The following first line is line 260 on httpd.conf: FastCgiIpcDir /tmp FastCgiExternalServer /usr/local/apache/htdocs/zope \ -socket zope.soc \ -pass-header Authorization This is apparently the only error, as when i commented this out Apache started fine. Any ideas on how to recover Zope, and could the update script have actually caused this, or was this just some weird timing, coincience thing? Here is the entry to nohup file: ------ 2002-11-04T18:49:42 PROBLEM(100) Init Ambiguous name for method of Products.SiteAccess.SiteRoot.SiteRoot: "manage" != "manage_main" ------ 2002-11-04T18:49:43 PANIC(300) z2 Startup exception Traceback (innermost last): File /usr/local/zope/z2.py, line 564, in ? File <string>, line 1, in ? File /usr/local/Zope-2.4.4-src/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 110, in ? File /usr/local/zope/lib/python/ZODB/FileStorage.py, line 267, in __init__ File /usr/local/zope/lib/python/ZODB/lock_file.py, line 101, in lock_file StorageSystemError: Could not lock the database file. There must be another process that has opened the file. <p> michael _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) ------------------------------------------------------- -- Michael Lewis Nichestaffing.com Web: http://www.nichestaffing.com Email: mlewis@nichestaffing.com Phone: 970-472-1241 Fax: 970-472-8497 "Whatever you can conceive and believe, you can achieve"