[Zope] Unusual 2.7 runzope fail message!

[Chris McDonough]

No, but please append your traceback to this collector issue:

http://zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1301

In the meantime, if you grep for lines that import or otherwise use
initgroups in the Zope source code and comment them out, it should work
fine.

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 23:17, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> Without apparent incident I have built Zope2.7 from the tarball,
> using Python 2.3.3 (threaded) on this fairly current NetBSD
> system. I create an instance under /usr/local and in etc/zope.conf
> set an 'effective user', one that I've used for months now with my
> Zope2.6 installation on this machine. Here's the output:
> 
> trollboy /usr/local/zope27 # bin/runzope &
> [1] 1904
> trollboy /usr/local/zope27 # ------
> 2004-04-27T01:49:15 INFO(0) ZServer HTTP server started at Tue Apr 27 01:49:15 2004
>         Hostname: trollboy.host_obfuscated.org
>         Port: 8088
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/lib/Zope2.7/lib/python/Zope/Startup/run.py", line 49, in ?
>     run()
>   File "/usr/local/lib/Zope2.7/lib/python/Zope/Startup/run.py", line 19, in run
>     start_zope(opts.configroot)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/Zope2.7/lib/python/Zope/Startup/__init__.py", line 48, in start_zope
>     starter.dropPrivileges()
>   File "/usr/local/lib/Zope2.7/lib/python/Zope/Startup/__init__.py", line 203, in dropPrivileges
>     return dropPrivileges(self.cfg)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/Zope2.7/lib/python/Zope/Startup/__init__.py", line 347, in dropPrivileges
>     initgroups.initgroups(effective_user, gid)
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'initgroups'
> 
> nb: 
> 
> If I build and run Zope2.7 entirely under an ordinary user's
> $HOME account on this NetBSD system, the thing launches and runs
> with no complaints at all! 
> 
> And, I don't see the errant behaviour on an OpenBSD 3.5 system in
> my possession, using a similarly hand-rolled-from-tarball Zope2.7.
> 
> Does this ring a bell with anyone??
>