[Zope] finding the reason why my Zope crashes

[Reinoud van Leeuwen]

Hi,

I have some trouble with my zope test server. I am trying to decide
whether to use Silva or Plone, but with both products, my Zope site
crashes reproduceable. (in both products while adding a site).

I use
Zope Version  (Zope 2.5.1 (source release, python 2.1, linux2), python
2.1.3, freebsd4)
Python Version  2.1.3 (#2, Oct 1 2002, 17:24:12) [GCC 2.95.3 20010315
(release) [FreeBSD]]
System Platform  freebsd4
SOFTWARE_HOME  /usr/local/zope/zope/lib/python

On FreeBSD 4.5 RELEASE.

(Zope is running behind Apache with PCGI. It is started through zopectl).

I've tried "Debug a spinning Zope"
(http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/debugspinningzope). But as soon as I try
*anything* after attaching the gdb to zope, it just stops, and even gdb
seems to be confused:

(gdb) quit
The program is running.  Quit anyway (and detach it)? (y or n) y
Detaching from program: /usr/bin/python2.1, process 13429, thread 1
ptrace: No such process.
(gdb)

(the only way to quit my debuggin session is to kill it (!!))

I can not find any traces of the crash in Zope log files, only this line
in /var/log/messages:

Oct  8 15:52:21 zopetest /kernel: pid 13429 (python), uid 25933: exited
on signal 11

Does anyone have tips on finding what is wrong here?

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