[Zope] Zope Still Crashes Daily

[zope at netchan.cotse.net]

I use zope2.7 on OpenBSD 3.4 too, but without any problems. I compiled
both python and zope from sources and not from ports.  
Two suggestions:
- consider using "release23-maint" branch from python cvs
- if you use any external python module which has C parts (libxml2 for
example), check if the dynamic library loader can see them (ldconfig -r)

For compiling python, you might want to apply the following patch:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/ports/lang/python/2.3/p
atches/patch-configure_in?rev=1.1.1.1&content-type=text/plain

Regards,
Sandor

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-bounces+zope=netchan.cotse.net at zope.org 
> [mailto:zope-bounces+zope=netchan.cotse.net at zope.org] On 
> Behalf Of Murray Pearson
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 12:03 PM
> To: zope at zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Zope Still Crashes Daily
> 
> 
> I am having serious stability issues with Zope.
> 
> I brought this up about a month ago and, based on very 
> helpful advice, 
> succeeded at setting up Apache in front of Zope. I was assured this 
> would greatly increase stability by filtering out script-kiddie 
> attacks.
> 
> Alas, it hasn't. Zope still craps out at random, once a day or so.
> 
> Might the malformed requests be coming in through port 8080 directly, 
> crashing Zope that way? I can't shut off the port in Zope or Apache 
> won't be able to communicate. However, I might be able to set up a 
> packet filter that will stop traffic on port 8080 on the external 
> NIC... for example. But I don't want to plow my way through a kludgey 
> solution that does not address the actual source of the failures.
> 
> In short, I don't know why I can't trust Zope. This is Bad 
> News because 
> I am trying to finish my first paid Zope contract and I can't deliver 
> an unreliable product. Since Zope is extremely dependable to most 
> people, I am apparently doing Something Wrong.
> 
> Can anybody tell me if there is any particular problem with my setup?
> 
> I'm running OpenBSD 3.4 on fairly basic machines: one an HP Pentium 
> III, the other a no-name Athlon box. The operating system 
> seems to have 
> no problem with the hardware. On these I have installed Python 2.1.3 
> and Zope 2.6.1 and MySQL 3.23 and so on, all from OpenBSD packages. I 
> compiled Apache 2 from source with mod_proxy, mod_http_proxy and 
> mod_rewrite and it successfully routes content from Zope, but was 
> returning Bad Gateway messages until I set it to ignore 
> errors (is this 
> normal? nobody mentioned it).
> 
> My strategies from here:
> (1) Try another OS. I put FreeBSD on one machine, and although I did 
> not get the whole thing running it appears that the software in the 
> ports collection is the same as OpenBSD so I don't anticipate any 
> benefit. I would like to hear OS suggestions... except those made by 
> Microsoft. Would some flavour of Linux make my life any easier?
> 
> (2) Upgrade the software. This will mean building from source and 
> facing, if everything goes perfectly smoothly, hours and hours of 
> compiling time on a P III. Again, this has no promise of helping and 
> could turn into a big waste of time if they don't compile happily.
> 
> Any help is appreciated!
> TIA, Murray
> 
> 
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