[Zope] SOLVED: LocalFS problem while booting server

[Reinoud van Leeuwen]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 05:45:43PM +0100, Reinoud van Leeuwen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have installed Zope 2.5.0 (with Python 2.1.2) on a FreeBSD 4.2 server 
> behind Apache 1.3.20 with PCGI.
> 
> Zope is started at boot time from /etc/rc.local with the command 
> /usr/local/zope/bin/zopectl start
> 
> After booting, LocalFS does not work. ErrorMessage is:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/zope/2.5.0/lib/python/OFS/Application.py", line 531, in 
> import_product
>     product=__import__(pname, global_dict, global_dict, silly)
>   File "/usr/local/WWW/zopetest.domain.com/Products/LocalFS/__init__.py", 
> line 65, in ?
>     traceback.print_exc()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.1/traceback.py", line 210, in print_exc
>     print_exception(etype, value, tb, limit, file)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.1/traceback.py", line 122, in print_exception
>     _print(file, 'Traceback (most recent call last):')
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.1/traceback.py", line 13, in _print
>     file.write(str+terminator)
> IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error

After some debugging I found the solution:
during the start process, the product tries to write a warning to 
sys.stderr. For some reason STDERR is not writable from /etc/rc.local. So 
the warning cannot be written, and this results in an exception, 
preventing the product from starting up at all. I solved this by changing 
the line in /etc/rc.local to:

echo -n " Zope "; /usr/local/zope/bin/zopectl start 2>> /var/log/zopeboot

Now the warning can be written somewhere and Zope boots complete.

Thanks for your help.

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