[Zope] Error when packing Data.fs

Chris McDonough chrism@digicool.com
Wed, 23 May 2001 09:22:59 -0400


OK, thanks Garry...  I'm going to treat this as an isolated error, where
the solution is to not close the terminal window after you do "./start
&" or alternately to use "nohup ./start &".

Garry Steedman wrote:
> 
> Chris,
> 
> thanks for the mail: just thought i'd mention it. due to the famous
> problem with python 1.5.2 appending `L' to integers with MySQL, i
> can't go back to pre 2.0 versions of python...
> 
> if it's important to you to have more detail let me know and i'll try
> to oblige...
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Garry
> 
> On 23 May 2001, at 8:55, Chris McDonough wrote:
> 
> Date sent:              Wed, 23 May 2001 08:55:33 -0400
> From:                   Chris McDonough <chrism@digicool.com>
> To:                     gs@styrax.com
> Copies to:              zope@zope.org
> Subject:                Re: [Zope] Error when packing Data.fs
> 
> > Hi Garry,
> >
> > Hmmm, we haven't had any reports that Zope outright crashes due to a
> > missing stdout.  Note that the first thing to try is to run Zope 2.3.2
> > final under Python 1.5.2 (the stable Zope release under the Python
> > platform that is recommended to run under - Zope 2.4 will be/is Python
> > 2.X ready). If it still happens under this environment, do you think
> > you might be able to submit a report to the Collector
> > (http://classic.zope.org:8080/Collector) describing the bug and crash
> > in as much detail as you can provide?
> >
> >
> > - C
> >
> >
> > Garry Steedman wrote:
> > >
> > > Chris,
> > >
> > > should this result in Zope crashing?
> > >
> > > my experience is this:
> > >
> > > Zope 2.3.2b source, Python 2.0 source on SuSE 6.4: if i ./start &
> > > Zope on the default terminal and log out of that terminal it never
> > > stays up for more than a day! if i ./start & from another terminal
> > > and stay logged in (which i have the luxury of being able to do for
> > > the moment), Zope keeps chugging away...
> > >
> > > granted, ./start & is not the nicest way to do things, but if it can
> > > result in the process crashing, this should probably be flagged?
> > >
> > > cheers,
> > >
> > > Garry
> > >
> > > On 14 May 2001, at 14:45, Chris McDonough wrote:
> > >
> > > From:                   "Chris McDonough" <chrism@digicool.com> To:
> > >                    "Gilles Lenfant" <glenfant@bigfoot.com>,
> > > <zope@zope.org> Subject:                Re: [Zope] Error when
> > > packing Data.fs Date sent:              Mon, 14 May 2001 14:45:39
> > > -0400
> > >
> > > > Oh wait.  Damn.  I had this conversation last week.  ;-)
> > > >
> > > > You're starting Zope through something like this:
> > > >
> > > > ./start &
> > > >
> > > > You then close the terminal window, and Zope's controlling
> > > > terminal disappears.... Zope is trying to send output to stdout,
> > > > but stdout is gone. You get the IOError.
> > > >
> > > > Instead of starting Zope this way, start Zope from a terminal that
> > > > doesn't get closed.
> > > >
> > > > - C
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Gilles Lenfant" <glenfant@bigfoot.com>
> > > > To: <zope@zope.org>
> > > > Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 1:21 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: [Zope] Error when packing Data.fs
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Thanks Chris...
> > > > >
> > > > > I got 4 Gb left on the partition. Not enough for that log ?
> > > > > There is no STUPID_LOG_FILE environment var set on the server !
> > > > > Thus (as far as my poor brain can understand) nothing should be
> > > > > logged ! So shouldn't this log to stderr or /dev/null (?) And
> > > > > there was no such problem with Zope 2.3.0.
> > > > >
> > > > > I got the same problem on my 2 Zope prodction servers on Linux.
> > > > > On the development server (Win2k/Zope 2.3.2), there's no such
> > > > > problem.
> > > > >
> > > > > And last... The data don't pack. (A cause or a consequence ?)
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > >
> > > > > -- Gilles
> > > > >
> > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > From: Chris McDonough
> > > > > To: Gilles Lenfant ; zope@zope.org
> > > > > Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 6:46 PM
> > > > > Subject: Re: [Zope] Error when packing Data.fs
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Check to make sure you have space available on the partition
> > > > > which holds
> > > > the
> > > > > STUPID_LOG_FILE.  Make sure the user who the process is running
> > > > > under has write access to the file.
> > > > >
> > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > From: "Gilles Lenfant" <glenfant@bigfoot.com>
> > > > > To: <zope@zope.org>
> > > > > Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 12:44 PM
> > > > > Subject: [Zope] Error when packing Data.fs
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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