[Zope] Zope 2.5.1 installation problems (zope dumping core)

[Malcolm E Davis]

I always was starting Zope with the -D flag, so I was always collecting
stdout from the server.  To see if it might be enlightening to someone
else, here is the information I see in stdout from running the standard
start script which in turn runs "/usr/freeware/bin/python2 z2.py -D"

----------begin-stdout-from-zope----------
root@myhost:/cow/src/Zope-2.5.1-src## ./start
------
2002-05-14T21:04:28 INFO(0) ZODB Opening database for mounting:
'278356496_1020455750.166130'
------
2002-05-14T21:04:29 INFO(0) ZODB Mounted database
'278356496_1020455750.166130' at /temp_folder
------
2002-05-14T21:04:29 INFO(0) ZServer HTTP server started at Tue May 14
17:04:29 2002
 Hostname: myhost.mydomain.com
 Port: 8080
------
2002-05-14T21:04:29 INFO(0) ZServer FTP server started at Tue May 14
17:04:29 2002
 Hostname: myhost
 Port: 8021
------
2002-05-14T21:04:29 INFO(0) ZServer PCGI Server started at Tue May 14
17:04:29 2002
 Unix socket: /cow/src/Zope-2.5.1-src/var/pcgi.soc
------
2002-05-14T21:08:12 INFO(0) ZODB Opening database for mounting:
'278356496_1020455750.166130'
------
2002-05-14T21:08:12 INFO(0) ZODB Mounted database
'278356496_1020455750.166130' at /temp_folder
------
2002-05-14T21:08:13 INFO(0) ZServer HTTP server started at Tue May 14
17:08:13 2002
 Hostname: myhost.mydomain.com
 Port: 8080
------
2002-05-14T21:08:13 INFO(0) ZServer FTP server started at Tue May 14
17:08:13 2002
 Hostname: myhost
 Port: 8021
------
2002-05-14T21:08:13 INFO(0) ZServer PCGI Server started at Tue May 14
17:08:13 2002
 Unix socket: /cow/src/Zope-2.5.1-src/var/pcgi.soc
------
2002-05-14T21:08:22 INFO(0) ZODB Opening database for mounting:
'278356496_1020455750.166130'
------
2002-05-14T21:08:22 INFO(0) ZODB Mounted database
'278356496_1020455750.166130' at /temp_folder
------
2002-05-14T21:08:23 INFO(0) ZServer HTTP server started at Tue May 14
17:08:23 2002
 Hostname: myhost.mydomain.com
 Port: 8080
------
2002-05-14T21:08:23 INFO(0) ZServer FTP server started at Tue May 14
17:08:23 2002
 Hostname: myhost
 Port: 8021
------
2002-05-14T21:08:23 INFO(0) ZServer PCGI Server started at Tue May 14
17:08:23 2002
 Unix socket: /cow/src/Zope-2.5.1-src/var/pcgi.soc
-----

----------end-stdout-from-zope----------

I get the first "Open database for mounting...pcgi.soc" block when the
server initially starts.  When I click on the "Zope Management
Interface" link I get the two repeated blocks and the program dumps
core.  Here is the var/Z2.log from the transaction:


----------begin-var/Z2.log-from-zope----------
XXX.XXX.X.XXX - Anonymous [14/May/2002:17:07:10 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.0"
200 6241 "" "Mozilla/4.72 [en]C-BMY  (WinNT; U)"
XXX.XXX.X.XXX - Anonymous [14/May/2002:17:07:11 -0400] "GET
/p_/ZopeButton HTTP/1.0" 200 9572 "http://nod.lvl.pri.bms.com:8080/"
"Mozilla/4.72 [en]C-BMY  (WinNT; U)"
XXX.XXX.X.XXX - Anonymous [14/May/2002:17:07:42 -0400] "GET /manage
HTTP/1.0" 401 1463 "http://nod.lvl.pri.bms.com:8080/" "Mozilla/4.72
[en]C-BMY  (WinNT; U)"
XXX.XXX.X.XXX - admin [14/May/2002:17:08:03 -0400] "GET /manage
HTTP/1.0" 200 1175 "http://nod.lvl.pri.bms.com:8080/" "Mozilla/4.72
[en]C-BMY  (WinNT; U)"
XXX.XXX.X.XXX - admin [14/May/2002:17:08:03 -0400] "GET
/manage_top_frame HTTP/1.0" 200 1437 "http://nod.lvl.pri.bms.com:8080/"
"Mozilla/4.72 [en]C-BMY  (WinNT; U)"
XXX.XXX.X.XXX - admin [14/May/2002:17:08:03 -0400] "GET
/manage_workspace HTTP/1.0" 302 478 "http://nod.lvl.pri.bms.com:8080/"
"Mozilla/4.72 [en]C-BMY  (WinNT; U)"
XXX.XXX.X.XXX - admin [14/May/2002:17:08:03 -0400] "GET
/manage_page_style.css HTTP/1.0" 200 3041 "" "Mozilla/4.72 [en]C-BMY
(WinNT; U)"
----------end-var/Z2.log-from-zope----------

As you can see there is no warning or error message.  I would wonder
about the SGI python2 installation, but as I said in my original post, I
get exactly the same behavior from the install on Linux box running
RedHat 6.2.

Still perplexed,
Malcolm