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

[Paul Winkler]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 01:10:34PM -0400, Dan Gaibel wrote:
> We're running on RedHat 7.3, Zope 2.5.1 with Python 2.1.3.
> 
> The only change I can think of was that we created a "zope" user to 
> install the instance. It looks like the zope user had been removed. 
> Creating a new zope user seemed to fix the problem. Does this make any 
> sense?

maybe, it could have been a permission problem but I'd expect some error 
message like "Permission denied."

The reason I mentioned RH is that I could imagine problems if
you were using an older RedHat and upgraded glibc and ran into
the oft-reported NPTL problems (google for LD_ASSUME_KERNEL
for more info). Just a guess. SOunds like that wasn't relevant.
 
> We've switched to the backup server, and we're calling the problem an 
> "opportunity" to upgrade to 2.7.1. Hopefully we won't run into an 
> entirely new set of problems with that.

If you have a bunch of third-party products, I would take some time
to be sure that they all still work with 2.7.x. 
E.g. when I moved from zope 2.6.2 to 2.7.0, I had to upgrade LocalFS to 
localfs-1.2-andreas.  I forget if there were other upgrades.
And due to the many changes in configuration and installation, I found
it to be a more involved upgraded than e.g. 2.5 to 2.6.
Definitely worth it though, I love 2.7.

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Paul Winkler
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