[Zope] zopectl or runzope just won't start zope

[Floyd May]

First, I would recommend against changing anything in any file at this point
except configuration files.

Next, verify that the correct python version is being used.  It's easy to
have two pythons side-by-side on the same linux system.  If you built Zope
from source, you (probably) should build python from source as well.
However, if you used an installable package for Zope, I would recommend
staying with whatever version pairing of Zope/Python that your Linux
distribution has by default.  It's simpler that way, and will probably solve
your problem.  I know that I've built Zope before where it's pointed at the
wrong python version, and got things all screwed up for me.  Use "`which
python` -V" (those are backtics) to figure out the version that your $PATH
points to by default.

If you *are* building from source, verify that you used
--with-python="/path/to/python2.3.5" when you ran the configure script for
Zope.  The configure script should(?) tell you if there's a problem with any
module dependencies.  Again, if building Zope from source, it's probably
best that you use a python built from source as well.

Good Luck!
fm

On 12/14/05, Qass <qassair at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> I'm new to zope and yesterday installed zope 2.8.4 on a linux system
> running python 2.3.5
> Having followed installation instructions I got to the point of
> 'zopectl start' and got the following error message while trying both
> 'runzope' and 'zopectl'.
>
> I've tried installing different versions of Zope and get the same
> error (error absent with Zope 3). At one point, Zope did start (I
> moved it to a different port) but when I tried installing Plone in the
> Products directory of the zope instance, the 'Plone Site' did not show
> up in the drop down menu on the right hand side of the ZMI. Which is
> why I decided to reinstall and have been getting errors since. I
> haven't messed around with the Python installation at all.
>
> In this latest install I ran 'make instance' intead of 'make install'
> just to see if I would get the same error as I did yesterday when I
> had an instance of Zope running and I did.
>
> Any help in trying to fix this would be highly appreciated. I've tried
> changing PYTHONPATH in the zopectl file but that just leads to more
> and more errors.
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/blah//Zope-2.8.4-final/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/run.py", line 56,
> in ?
>     run()
>   File "/blah/Zope-2.8.4-final/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/run.py", line 17,
> in run
>     import Zope2.Startup
>   File "/blah/Zope-2.8.4-final/lib/python/Zope2/__init__.py", line 60, in
> ?
>     from Zope2.Startup.run import configure
>   File "/network/share/home/sra/Zope-2.8.4-final
> /lib/python/Zope2/Startup/__init__.py",
> line 24, in ?
>     import ZConfig
>   File "/blah/Zope-2.8.4-final/lib/python/ZConfig/__init__.py", line 21,
> in ?
>     from ZConfig.loader import loadConfig, loadConfigFile
>   File "/blah/Zope-2.8.4-final/lib/python/ZConfig/loader.py", line 23, in
> ?
>     import ZConfig.datatypes
>   File "/blah/Zope-2.8.4-final/lib/python/ZConfig/datatypes.py", line 19,
> in ?
>     import datetime
>   File "/blah/Zope-2.8.4-final/lib/python/DateTime/__init__.py", line 13,
> in ?
>     from DateTime import DateTime
>   File "/blah/Zope-2.8.4-final/lib/python/DateTime/DateTime.py", line 21,
> in ?
>     from datetime import datetime
>   File "/blah/Zope-2.8.4-final/lib/python/DateTime/DateTime.py", line 21,
> in ?
>     from datetime import datetime
> ImportError: cannot import name datetime
>
> Thank you very much for your help.
>
> Qass
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Floyd May
Senior Systems Analyst
CTLN - CareerTech Learning Network
fmay at okcareertech.org
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