[Zope] My Sad Tale Of Woe

[Chris McDonough]

Put a file named "access" in your Zope instance home with the content:

emergency:123

You should be able to log in as the "emergency user" at that point  
and change the "admin" user's password.

- C


On Nov 29, 2006, at 2:59 PM, Nancy Donnelly wrote:

> 757575
> Hi;
> Is anybody out there reading this list? Third question today, no  
> responses, and boy am I in trouble. I went to backup my server's  
> working HD on my new .5 teraflop HD and for some reason that wiped  
> out the /var dirs in my Zope instances. I have backups of the  
> Data.fs that aren't too old, but for some reason I can't get a  
> working copy of Zope installed! I follow the tar, configure, make,  
> make install, make instance without throwing anything special at  
> the configure, then I edit zope.conf to enter the correct effective- 
> user, but when I go to runzope, it throws a cPersistence error.  
> Well, I yahoo'd that and found out I had to run "python setup.py  
> build_ext -if" to knock it out. But why should I have to do that at  
> all? That's not standard procedure. Anyway, I got past that point,  
> but now when I try runzope I get the error that follows. And I've  
> tried every way I can think of to get around it. All the  
> permissions are correct. Once I actually got to the point where it  
> said Zope was ready to serve, could surf to the  
> 111.222.333.444:8080 page, but try to get into the "manage" page  
> and it won't accept my username/password. I ran zpasswd.py and  
> still couldn't get in! Guys, I'm exhausted. I've been at this for  
> 10 hours! Any help would really be appreciated.
> Nancy
>
> root at server167:local/www/clients (103) ./bin/runzope
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/src/Zope-2.9.6-final/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/ 
> run.py", line 56, in ?
>     run()
>   File "/usr/local/src/Zope-2.9.6-final/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/ 
> run.py", line 21, in run
>     starter.prepare()
>   File "/usr/local/src/Zope-2.9.6-final/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/ 
> __init__.py", line 98, in prepare
>     self.startZope()
>   File "/usr/local/src/Zope-2.9.6-final/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/ 
> __init__.py", line 257, in startZope
>     Zope2.startup()
>   File "/usr/local/src/Zope-2.9.6-final/lib/python/Zope2/ 
> __init__.py", line 47, in startup
>     _startup()
>   File "/usr/local/src/Zope-2.9.6-final/lib/python/Zope2/App/ 
> startup.py", line 60, in startup
>     DB = dbtab.getDatabase('/', is_root=1)
>   File "/usr/local/src/Zope-2.9.6-final/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/ 
> datatypes.py", line 280, in getDatabase
>     db = factory.open(name, self.databases)
>   File "/usr/local/src/Zope-2.9.6-final/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/ 
> datatypes.py", line 178, in open
>     DB = self.createDB(database_name, databases)
>   File "/usr/local/src/Zope-2.9.6-final/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/ 
> datatypes.py", line 175, in createDB
>     return ZODBDatabase.open(self, databases)
>   File "/usr/local/src/Zope-2.9.6-final/lib/python/ZODB/config.py",  
> line 97, in open
>     storage = section.storage.open()
>   File "/usr/local/src/Zope-2.9.6-final/lib/python/ZODB/config.py",  
> line 135, in open
>     quota=self.config.quota)
>   File "/usr/local/src/Zope-2.9.6-final/lib/python/ZODB/FileStorage/ 
> FileStorage.py", line 112, in __init__
>     self._lock_file = LockFile(file_name + '.lock')
>   File "/usr/local/src/Zope-2.9.6-final/lib/python/ZODB/ 
> lock_file.py", line 60, in __init__
>     self._fp = open(path, 'w+')
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/www/clients/var/ 
> Data.fs.lock'
>
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