[Zope] disappearing external methods

[Jonathan]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garry Saddington" <garry at schoolteachers.co.uk>
To: <zope at zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] disappearing external methods


> On Wednesday 07 May 2008 16:54, Jonathan wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Garry Saddington" <garry at schoolteachers.co.uk>
>> To: <zope at zope.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 11:52 AM
>> Subject: [Zope] disappearing external methods
>>
>> >I have recently moved our Zope installation over to a centos server. 
>> >Since
>> >the
>> > move all the external methods periodically stop working for no apparent
>> > reason and the error is returned as:
>> > "external method can not be called because it is none"
>> >
>> > The thing is that it works well and then stops. Does anyone have any
>> > ideas about this? The installation was not initially compiled on centos
>> > as I have a
>> > large collection of software as part of the application which can be
>> > moved between servers with the Zope installation. The reason for the 
>> > move
>> > to Centos
>> > is that DTMLTex fails when trying to run pdflatex on Ubuntu and this
>> > seems to
>> > be distro specific, with no apparent way to fix it, unless anyone knows
>> > any
>> > better?
>>
>> We use centOS and have a lot of external methods (all working happily).
>>
>> Have you tried deleting the .pyc files associated with the external 
>> methods
>> and then restarting zope?
> There are no .pyc files in any of our installations.
> Have you used the Zope that comes with Centos or from Zope.org?
> Regards
> Garry

We downloaded/installed zope from zope.org.


Jonathan