[Zope] Zope 2.5.1 still dumping core on SGI

[Matthew T. Kromer]

Malcolm E Davis wrote:

>When I initially posted here it was suggested that my core dump
>problems may have been due to a missing shared library.  However
>I do not find an error message in either the stdout from the
>server or in the Z2.log file or in a detail.log file I generated
>by adding the -M flag to the command line.
>
>For the record here again is what I am doing and what happens.  I
>downloaded the Zope-2.5.1-src distribution.  I untarred it onto
>my SGI running IRIX 6.5 and ran
>/usr/freeware/bin/python2 w_pcgi.py.  (Note that this is the
>current SGI freeware package of python which is version 2.1.1)
>Following that I ran ./start -M var/detail.log.  (Note that the
>./start script inserts the -D flag.)  I then accessed the web
>server using Netscape (either 4.72 under WindowsNT or 4.79 under
>IRIX).  I received the initial page with no problem.  I clicked
>on the "Zope Management Interface" link and on the client I get
>the three frames, but only the top frame fills and I get two
>"Document contains no data" dialog boxes.  On the server, the
>server has dumped core and restarted.  The messages from the
>server that I can find (i.e. stdout, var/Z2.log, and
>var/detail.log) report no errors, other than the server
>restarting twice.  I've included copies of each of these three
>reports below.  Any suggestion on how to fix the problem or at
>least generate (of find) any additional error messages would be
>appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Malcolm Davis
>
>  
>

Well, if you have dbx on your system, it would be useful to run it 
against python's core file.  That will at least tell you where it 
crashed, if not necessarily why.

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Matt Kromer
Zope Corporation  http://www.zope.com/