[Zope] ZServer crash, Zope 2.6.2b3 RH9

[J. Cameron Cooper]

Dennis Allison wrote:

>RH9 has had major problems with programs that use threads.  I just
>experienced a server crash (ouch!) which looks like it may be due to
>RH9 threading, but I am not sure.  And, of course, there's not much to go
>on in the logs, there's no chance of reproducing the situation, etc.
>
>Basically Zope died at line 241 in ZServer/HTTPResponse.py.  This is in 
>the __init__ method of the ChannelPipe class (and "Experimental" pipe
>from ZPublisher to a ZServer Channel).  The error was 
>
>ZServer Server Error: exception.TypeError, attribute name must be a
>string: file: $SOFTWAREHOME/ZServer/HTTResponse.py line: 241
>
>repeated many times.
>
>ZServer eventually tries to close the channel (uncaptured Python
>exception), but the error persists.  Shutdown of Zope was normal and
>restarting cleared the problem.
>
>Has anyone else seen this kind of behavior?  I'll file a bug report 
>on it if it happens again.
>
Many many people, although maybe not this particular symptom. You can 
find several solutions in the list archives. (LD_EXPORT_KERNEL to force 
use of the old thread library, updates fix things.)

          --jcc

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