[Zope-dev] zope core dump

seb bacon seb@jamkit.com
Tue, 10 Jul 2001 19:49:48 +0100


* Evan Simpson <evan@4-am.com> [010709 21:12]:
> seb bacon wrote:
> 
> > I just tried to restart zope and got a core dump.  The backtrace
> > (pasted below) indicated a problem with the binascii module, and sure
> > enough, trying to import it reproduced the segfault.  I reinstalled
> > python and it all worked again.
> 
> Reinstalling Python to fix it??  That sounds like filesystem (or disk) 
> corruption to me.  Unless you've installed something between Zope 
> startups that could conceivably have overwritten the module?

That's what I thought.  Thing is, it's on a RAID0+1 system with new,
clean disks, and a current, stable kernel.  Still, that's the only
logical explanation really.  I was just hoping you wouldn't say that
;-)

seb