[Zope] Zope dies after a few seconds

[Paul Winkler]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:56:09PM +0200, Gerhard Venter wrote:
> When I start Zope it runs for a few seconds and then the
> process goes dead.

What do the logs say?

>  This happened after I installed the 1.0
> version of Plone (replacing RC1).  Before doing this I
> backed up the /zope/var folder (but while Zope was running
> -not sure if that was wrong).  Since I previously restarted
> Zope, I also changed the host name of the machine, and a
> few things relating to mail.  I'm not sure what other
> changes my colleagues may have made.
> To fix the problem, I truncated the database as described
> in http://www.zope.org/Members/itamar/CorruptedZODB until
> it was reduced from 56 MB to 7 MB to no avail.

are you just guessing that the database is corrupted?
did you run utilities/ZODBTools/fstest.py?

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