[Zope] Help! Zope Crashed and will not start up again!

[Dan Gaibel]

Hello folks,

I'm baffled by a problem we are having with our site and would 
appreciate any help. We've been running Zope 2.5.1 for quite a while 
now without any interruption. Due to this stability, I haven't dealt 
with nuts and bolts sorts of issues and could really use some 
assistance. Seemingly out of the blue, Zope crashed. When I try to run 
the start script, it gets stuck on the following error:

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/home/lrc/lib/python/SearchIndex/__init__.py:19: DeprecationWarning: 
The usage of the SearchIndex package is deprecated since Zope 2.4.
This package is only kept for backwards compatibility for a while
and will go away in a future release.

Please use instead the re-factored modules in Products/PluginIndexes.

   warnings.warn("The usage of the SearchIndex package is deprecated 
since \

==========

I have seen this message before, but I've ignored it because Zope 
usually starts right up afterwards and runs just fine. Now it won't get 
past that message and I find myself in an emergency situation. Does 
anyone know enough about the Zope startup routine to help point me in 
the right direction?

I greatly appreciate any advice at all.

Thanks,

Dan