Re: apt-get install zope fails

[Roscoe Joao <Joao.Roscoe@magnetimarelli.com.br>]

Hi Stephen,

I've followed your suggestion, and got reportbug - it is really useful.
Meanwhile, I've been struggling with my zope install and managed to fix 
a few gotchas (I'll send them as adittional
info to the package maintainer). At this point, I have default instance 
data in place, but zope does not start properly yet.
So I used export Z_DEBUG_MODE=1 to get some adittional info, and got the 
messages below:

   debian-hp:/usr/lib/zope/lib/python# zopectl start       
   Starting Zope instance default...
   ------
   2004-01-16T10:07:18 PANIC(300) z2 Startup exception
   Traceback (innermost last):
     File /usr/lib/zope/z2.py, line 593, in ?
     File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 45, in startup
     File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Zope/App/startup.py, line 16, in ?
     File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/AccessControl/__init__.py, line 16, in ?
     File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/AccessControl/DTML.py, line 18, in ?
     File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/__init__.py, line
   21, in ?
   ImportError: /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/ExtensionClass.so: undefined
   symbol: PyType_IsSubtype
    Waiting instances in late:default: timeout: 30
   debian-hp:/usr/lib/zope/lib/python#


Now I am really puzzled - it seems that there's something broken in zope 
code itself. What do you think about it?

Thanks a lot,
Joao


Stephen wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:44:20AM -0200 or thereabouts, Roscoe Joao wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi, Stephen,
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > I gave it a try:
> >
> >   ...
> >   ...
> >   debian-hp:/usr/bin# zopectl -a default
> >   Setting up initial user for default...sh: /usr/lib/zope/zpasswd.py:
> >   /usr/bin/env: bad interpreter: Permission denied
> >    failed: system(lib/zope/instance/default/access...) exited with
> >   status(32256)
> >   default: access: system(lib/zope/instance/default/access...) exited
> >   with status(32256)
> >   ...
> >   ...
> >   debian-hp:/usr/bin# ls -l /usr/bin/pyth*
> >   lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           18 Jan 14 09:28
> >   /usr/bin/python -> /usr/bin/python2.2
> >   -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       637472 Apr 20  2002
> >   /usr/bin/python2.1
> >   -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       976508 Nov 18 00:59
> >   /usr/bin/python2.2
> >   -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1118972 Jan  5 01:57
> >   /usr/bin/python2.3
> >   ...
> >   ...
> >
> > Duh! Wrong python version? So I tried removing the link and recreating 
> > it pointing to python2.1 and to python2.3, but got exactly the same 
> > error that way too. Sigh! Any clue?
> >    
>
> Not really, I don't understand on a vanilla Woody, why you have two
> Python versions. Sorry -- why not purge all your zope/python stuff and
> start over? When I was having my problems with the upgrade from Stable
> to Testing, I used aptitude to 'aptitude purge zope', then did a find
> for zope leftovers, removed them manually and then installed everything
> again. After doing the manual creation of the default instance again, it
> ran for "moi".
>
> I wish you luck. One thing that was suggested to me recently by a Debian
> maintainer, is the use of the Debian package 'reportbug'. I suggest that
> you download and install it. It's great for reporting a bug with a
> package. All one needs to do is issue the command 'reportbug', follow
> the prompts to file the information. The app will forward via e-mail the
> relevant information.
>
>