[Zope] Dangerous "cvs update"

Chris McDonough chrism@digicool.com
Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:45:16 -0400


We noticed this too.  ;-)  The trunk CVS was updated this morning to
recursively remove all .pyc files in the software home as part of the w_pcgi
or wo_pcgi scripts.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dieter Maurer" <dieter@handshake.de>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 5:01 PM
Subject: [Zope] Dangerous "cvs update"


> My yesterday "cvs update" let my Zope fail to start: Panic - startup
> exception; type error in "ZServer/HTTPServer".
>
> I analysed the problem:
>
>   Apparently "asyncore.py" has been moved.
>   "cvs update" had correctly remove the Python source
>   but (of course) left alone the corresponding "*.pyc" file.
>
>   Somehow, this old "*.pyc" file caused the problem.
>   After manual removal, my Zope works again.
>
> Dieter
>
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