[Zope] How to fix a "broken" object?

[James W. Howe]

Much to my dismay, for some reason I have some classes in my Zope 
environment which are "broken".  The message I get when I try to access 
them is:

"This object is broken because the unknown product that created it is no 
longer installed or is installed incorrectly. [...]"

The confusing thing is that the product which created them exists and looks 
just fine.  In addition, I can create new instances of the the ZClass which 
is giving me problems.  If I look at the source of the error message, I 
notice that it says the following:

"This object's class was IssueFolder in module *TOT0ABbYdW6zGJxy0BmF4g==."

I looked at my product, and the class id for IssueFolder is 
TOToABbYdW6zGJxy0BmF4g==.  I'm confused as to what I might have done to 
cause this problem.  If this were a production system I would be really 
concerned.  As it is, I'm concerned about putting Zope into production if 
there is some easy way to break things.

Does anybody have any tips or ideas on what may have happened?  I'm going 
to poke around the source code to see if I can find any clues, but if 
anyone else has experienced this sort of problem and knows how to fix it I 
would appreciate hearing from you.

Thanks.


James W. Howe				mailto:jwh@allencreek.com
Allen Creek Software, Inc.		pgpkey: http://ic.net/~jwh/pgpkey.html		
Ann Arbor, MI  48103