[Zope] Restart bug *and* shutdown bug

Sam Gendler sgendler@impossible.com
Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:28:19 -0800


Michel Pelletier wrote:
> 
> Let me verify for my sanity, you guys both tried running your browser on
> another machine right?  That appears to have fixed it for me, when I run
> a browser on a seperate machine the problem does not happen.
> 
> -Michel

I suspect that this is a problem caused by a race condition that only
occurs when you have high speed access.  I have a very fast network
here, and I can use any combination of machines and OSes and still see
the problem.


> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Magnus Heino [mailto:magnus@vuab.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 9:58 AM
> > To: Martijn Faassen
> > Cc: zope@zope.org
> > Subject: Re: [Zope] Restart bug *and* shutdown bug
> >
> >
> >
> > > Any progress on the restart bug front? I am having trouble
> > with regular
> > > shutdowns too, not only the previously reported restart weirdness.
> > >
> > > When I start the linux binary install with the 'start'
> > script on RedHat
> > > 6.1 (with the latest upgrades), I get strange behavior with
> > 'shutdown'
> > > in the Control Panel. When I do shutdown, and go back to
> > the management
> > > screen, Zope is still running, until I do *another*
> > shutdown. Sometimes
> > > I even have to do three shutdowns to get Zope down. This
> > happens with
> > > clean Zope 2.1.2 installs.
> > >
> > > This is really annoying when you're developing products.
> > The restart bug
> > > was difficult, but not being able to shut down reliably
> > makes even my
> > > workaround unworkable.
> > >
> > > So is there any progress on this? Presumably the restart
> > and shutdown
> > > problems are related. Last I saw it was discarded as a RedHat 5.2
> > > specific bug, but it definitely isn't. At least not here.
> >
> > I have exactly the same problems on RH6.1 and Zope 2.1.2 compiled from
> > source (I also did a cvs checkout yesterday, but it had the same
> > problems).
> >
> > I first thought it was me doing something wrong, since it was my first
> > attempt to write a product in python, and that it was "broken" almost
> > all the time.
> >
> >
> >
> > I also get a lot of
> >
> > 2000-01-07T18:09:02 ERROR(200) ZODB Couldn't load state for
> > '\000\000\000\000\000\000\002\320'
> >
> > is that related, or is that because of the broken product?
> >
> > It seems to disappear if I kill zope and all python processes and
> > restart.
> >
> >
> >
> > I ended up starting zope with ./start and killing it with ctrl+c
> > yesterday. I had enough problems trying to understand
> > zclasses etc than
> > to bother about if things got reloaded all the time...
> >
> >
> > /Magnus Heino
> >
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