[Zope] Help! Site Error, can't access anything and site is down!

[J Cameron Cooper]

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>
>I got an error out of the blue.  It says that Zope is running but I have
>the following error in the browser and can't access anything at all:
>
>Site Error
>An error was encountered while publishing this resource. 
>
>Error Type: NameError
>Error Value: global name 'request' is not defined
>
>...
>
>I also looked at my stupid.log and found this error in startup:
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>2003-06-26T15:17:12 PANIC(300) z2 Startup exception
>Traceback (innermost last):
>  File D:\site1\Plone\Zope\z2.py, line 582, in ?
>  File C:\Program Files\Plone\Zope\lib\python\Zope\__init__.py, line 46,
>in startup
>    (Object: startup)
>  File C:\Program Files\Plone\Zope\lib\python\Zope\App\startup.py, line
>54, in startup
>  File D:\site1\Plone\Data\custom_zodb.py, line 21, in ?
>  File D:\Plone\Zope\lib\python\Products\DBTab\DBTab.py, line 322, in
>getDatabase
>  File D:\Plone\Zope\lib\python\Products\DBTab\DBTab.py, line 340, in
>_createDatabase
>  File D:\Plone\Zope\lib\python\Products\DBTab\DBTab.py, line 220, in
>create
>  File C:\Program Files\Plone\Zope\lib\python\ZODB\FileStorage.py, line
>226, in __init__
>  File C:\Program Files\Plone\Zope\lib\python\ZODB\lock_file.py, line
>51, in lock_file
>StorageSystemError: Could not lock the database file.  There must be
>another process that has opened the file.
><p>
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>2003-06-26T15:17:44 PROBLEM(100) ZServer unhandled connect event
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>
>Please Help!  Everything is down.
>  
>
Kill all current zope processes (probably by killing all Python processes.)

Remove the file zope/var/Data.fs.lock (and maybe the .pid files if you 
feel like it.)

Restart Zope and check again. You probably had an unclean shutdown.

          --jcc