[Zope] Zope deamon doesn't start any more

[Chris McDonough]

I think this is a bug that was fixed a later version of Zope.  I'd
suggest installing Zope 2.7.3 from source instead of the Mandrake RPM to
fix it.

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 16:17, Roland Giesler wrote:
> I have installed zope 2.7.0 using Mandrake urpmi (rpm installed) and
> proceeded to play with zope.  All worked fine for about 4 hours.  Then I
> downloaded the plone tarball, extracted it into the /var/lib/zope/Products/
> folder, and used the zope control panel to restart zope.  It didn't start.
> It looks like it starts, but does nothing.
> 
> [root at inet lib]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/zope start
> Starting zope: Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Zope/Startup/zopectl.py", line 207, in ?
>     main()
>   File "/usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Zope/Startup/zopectl.py", line 190, in main
>     c.onecmd(" ".join(options.args))
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/cmd.py", line 210, in onecmd
>     return func(arg)
>   File "/usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Zope/Startup/zopectl.py", line 134, in
> do_start
>     ZDCmd.do_start(self, arg)
>   File
> "/usr/lib/zope/./build/build-base/python-2.3/build-lib/zdaemon/zdctl.py",
> line 214, in do_start
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/os.py", line 543, in spawnvp
>     return _spawnvef(mode, file, args, None, execvp)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/os.py", line 504, in _spawnvef
>     wpid, sts = waitpid(pid, 0)
> OSError: [Errno 10] No child processes
> 
> [root at inet zope]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/zope start
> Starting zope: daemon process started, pid=7855
> 
> So it appears to be running.  But I cannot connect to it via a browser.
> (Error: Connection refused)
> 
> My /var/log/zope/event.log doesn't have any more entries whether I try to
> start zope or not:
> 
> 2004-12-01T12:18:23 INFO(0) Zope Set effective user to "zope"
> ------
> 2004-12-01T12:18:37 INFO(0) Zope Ready to handle requests
> ------
> 2004-12-01T21:54:47 INFO(0) ApplicationManager Restart requested by "admin"
> ------
> 2004-12-01T21:54:47 INFO(0) ZServer closing HTTP to new connections
> ------
> 2004-12-01T21:54:47 INFO(0) ZServer closing FTP to new connections
> ------
> 2004-12-01T21:54:47 INFO(0) Zope Shutting down with exit code 1
> 
> What could be wrong?
> 
> Roland
> 
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