[ZCM] [ZC] 1438/ 6 Comment "Zope Does Not Install as Windows Service"

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Issue #1438 Update (Comment) "Zope Does Not Install as Windows Service"
 Status Resolved, Zope/bug medium
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  http://zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1438

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= Comment - Entry #6 by ctheune on Oct 14, 2004 5:34 pm

Can you check that with 2.7.3-beta2 please? 2.7.3 is going to be out _soon_, this is your chance. :)
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= Comment - Entry #5 by wmcrogers on Oct 13, 2004 9:58 pm

I've installed Zope 2.7.2-0, and corrected zopeservice.py script as suggested.  However when starting the service it dies repeatedly.
 From the EventViewer:
 Error: 255
 Message: Zope_-1444516661 (Zope instance at C:\Zope-Instance): process died
    unexpectedly.  Will attempt restart after 10 seconds.

As also suggested in the zopeservice.py script, I tried to register PythonService.exe, but also received error messages:

>"C:\Program Files\Zope-2.7.2-0\bin\PythonService.exe" /register

 Registering the Python Service Manager...
 Fatal Python error: PyThreadState_Get: no current thread

 This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
 Please contact the application's support team for more information.

I'm running XP Pro SP2.  Any suggestions
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= Resolve - Entry #4 by tim_one on Jul 29, 2004 11:34 am

 Status: Pending => Resolved

This is how to install the service manually:  open a DOS box, cd to the bin directory of your instance, and use your Zope's Python (wherever you installed that) to run this:

C:\Zope-Instance\bin>"\Program Files\Zope-2.7.2-0\bin\python.exe" zopeservice.py --startup auto install

In the distributed 2.7.2, that fails, like this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "zopeservice.py", line 102, in ?
    servicename = 'Zope_%s' % str(hash(INSTANCE__HOME.lower()))
NameError: name 'INSTANCE__HOME' is not defined

That's been fixed in CVS, so I'm closing this report.  If you want to, you can fix it yourself in your 2.7.2 by editing zopeservice.py and removing one of the underscores in INSTANCE__HOME (on line 102, as the traceback above shows).  It should have been INSTANCE_HOME, with just one underscore.

Then the manual install should work:

C:\Zope-Instance\bin>"\Program Files\Zope-2.7.2-0\bin\python.exe" zopeservice.py --startup auto install
Installing service Zope_-1444516661 to Python class C:\Zope-Instance\bin\zopeservice.InstanceService
Service installed

After that, you can go to the Services GUI to start the service by clicking stuff, or you can start it from the command line:

C:\Zope-Instance\bin>"\Program Files\Zope-2.7.2-0\bin\python.exe" zopeservice.py  start
Starting service Zope_-1444516661

The above was all run on a WinXP Pro SP1 box.
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= Comment - Entry #3 by Les on Jul 29, 2004 5:53 am

Zope-2.7.2-0-win32.exe  installed on win2k, after removing previous installation; Zope-2.7.0-win32.exe.

I checked the option to run as a service, but Zope was not registered as a service by the installer.

Running:  pythonservice.exe /register
Gives me:

  Registering the Python Service Manager...
  Fatal Python error: PyThreadState_Get: no current thread
  abnormal program termination


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= Comment - Entry #2 by ajung on Jul 28, 2004 2:38 am

Since you did not provide any useful informations it is hard to determine what your problem might be.

Despite the lack of information you provide there is one hint: zopeservice.py has been fixed latetly.

See http://collector.zope.org/Zope/1435
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= Request - Entry #1 by Anonymous User on Jul 27, 2004 10:53 am

I have installed Zope on two Windows XP Professional machines.  In both cases during the install I checked the box to install Zope as a service.  In both cases Zope failed to install as a Windows Service.
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