[Zope-dev] Zope 2.12.2 SyntaxError on installation

Tue Dec 29 09:38:29 EST 2009

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 03:30:20PM +0100, Hanno Schlichting wrote:
> 2009/12/29 Marius Gedminas <marius at gedmin.as>:
> > I get the following error:
> >
> >    File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/Zope2/utilities/load_site.py", line 248
> >      body = ("<html><head><title><dtml-var title_or_id></title>
> >                                                               ^
> >  SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string
> 
> I already fixed that error on the 2.12 branch. But it's a bogus
> message generated by setuptools. It tries to compile all scripts
> ending in .py when building the egg. The script in question is never
> used anywhere and is probably some bitrot.

Ah, I thought it was something like this.

> > After that, it refuses to create a Data.fs and start up:
> >
> >    File "/home/mg/tmp/buildout-eggs/Zope2-2.12.2-py2.5-linux-i686.egg/Zope2/Startup/datatypes.py", line 273, in _mountPathError
> >      "No root database configured")
> >  ZConfig.ConfigurationError: No root database configured
> >
> > Huh?  Result of that load_site.py error, or a missing manual step that I should
> > have known to do despite it being not mentioned in the installation docs?
> >
> > I was brave enough to specify INSTANCEHOME as '.' in my zope.conf,
> > because I strongly believe hardcoding absolute paths is dumb.
> >
> >  mg at platonas:~/src/akl-website-z2.12-experiment $ cat etc/zope.conf
> >  %define INSTANCE .
> >
> >  python $INSTANCE/bin/py
> >
> >  instancehome $INSTANCE
> 
> Well. You didn't specify a database file in your zope,conf it seems.
> Without a declaration, there's no database.

Makes sense, in a rather user-unfriendly way.  May I suggest the
documentation be amended to supply a closer-to-working zope.conf?
I'm referring to this bit:

  http://docs.zope.org/zope2/releases/2.12/INSTALL.html#buildout-instances

where I didn't notice the word "starting" in "Create a Zope configuration
file starting as follows".

Thanks for the very quick reply!

Marius Gedminas
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