[Zope] RE: Left Menu (Frame) on ZMI not displaying (ARGH!!!!)

Chris McDonough chrism at plope.com
Tue Nov 16 13:56:03 EST 2004


On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 10:41 -0800, Paul Sue wrote:
> This is true enough, I copied over the Zope instance ... so then, am I to conclude
> that there is no safe way to move a Zope installation to a new server?!

No, I've done it many times.  Most of the time copying the files over
just works.  But I've had various problems doing it from time to time,
and when I do, I chalk it up to library incompatibility and I just rerun
the installation.  FWIW, copying files as a way of installing Zope is
not a supported installation mechanism.  If it works, great.  If it
doesn't, I reinstall.  Doing any other sort of analysis if that works
seems to be a waste of time to me.

Note that handling dependency issues and file installation in an
organized way is the domain, for Fedora, of RPM.  There is indeed a
Fedora Zope RPM for 2.7.3 at
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1701 .  Maybe using the RPM
would be more palatable for you?

> I mean, I checked to make sure all the RPMS on both servers (both running RH FC2)
> were at same versions.  And it WAS working on the new server for 3 days before this
> problem reared its ugly head....
> 
> :(

Nobody really knows (too many variables).  You're literally right but if
you've made a mistake and they're not exactly the same in some critical
way, there could be a problem.  Or maybe some files didn't get copied or
were copied with improper permissions.  Nobody but you can know.

- C




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