[Zope] ZEO start.py fails to start ZSS on Debian...

[sean.upton@uniontrib.com]

I am running Debian testing (SPARC) with the 2.3.2-2 Zope deb, trying to
install ZEO, and am hung up on the storage server install becuase, even in
the simplest of cases, I cannot get lib/python/ZEO/start.py to do
anything... I get the same issue with ZEO 1.0b1 and 1.0b3.  There are a
bunch of
	try: ...
	except: pass
statements in the start.py code, and I'm sure I'm getting hit with one of
them; it's too bad there are not more debugging messages in there...  

Since there are no tracebacks, below is the best I have (a shell transcript)

Under Debian, Zope is installed at /usr/lib/zope as a program root (and thus
ZEO, unpacked here, with ZEO1.0b3/ZEO copied to lib/python, so that there is
a lib/python/ZEO).  /var/lib/zope is the instance home and contains a var
(/var/lib/zope/var) directory with Data.fs, log, and pid files.

Any help/thoughts would be appreciated...

Sean

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dbstore1:/usr/lib/zope/lib/python/ZEO# echo $INSTANCE_HOME
/var/lib/zope
dbstore1:/usr/lib/zope/lib/python/ZEO# python start.py -D \
			-U /var/lib/zope/var/ZEO.soc -u www-data
dbstore1:/usr/lib/zope/lib/python/ZEO# ps -Aef
UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
root         1     0  0 May28 ?        00:00:16 init
root         2     1  0 May28 ?        00:00:00 [powerd]
root         3     1  0 May28 ?        00:00:05 [kflushd]
root         4     1  0 May28 ?        00:00:03 [kupdate]
root         5     1  0 May28 ?        00:00:00 [kswapd]
root         6     1  0 May28 ?        00:00:00 [keventd]
daemon      84     1  0 May28 ?        00:00:00 /sbin/portmap
root       148     1  0 May28 ?        00:00:00 /sbin/syslogd
root       151     1  0 May28 ?        00:00:00 /sbin/klogd
root       165     1  0 May28 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/inetd
daemon     256     1  0 May28 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/atd
root       259     1  0 May28 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/cron
web        262     1  0 May28 ttyS0    00:00:00 -bash
root       263   262  0 May28 ttyS0    00:00:00 -su
root      3629   263  0 15:01 ttyS0    00:00:00 ps -Aef
dbstore1:/usr/lib/zope/lib/python/ZEO# 

Sean

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Sean Upton
Senior Programmer/Analyst
SignOnSanDiego.com
The San Diego Union-Tribune
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sean.upton@uniontrib.com
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