[ZODB-Dev] Cannot import name utils + class.__dict__ not accessible

[Jose Benito Gonzalez Lopez]

Dear ZODB developers,

We are experiencing some errors and we'd appreciate any idea or advise.

Our web application (http://indicodemo.cern.ch) uses ZODB:
- ZODB 3.4 in production
- and ZODB 3.8.0 for testing.
Both versions work smoothly.

Now, we are moving to ZODB3 3.8.1 (in a fresh installation of the web 
appl.). The installation was fine
but while navigating through the website, we get the following errors 
randomly:

<error1>
...
[..]   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/ZEO/ClientStorage.py", 
line 34, in ?\n    from ZEO.cache import ClientCache
[..]   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/ZEO/cache.py", line 36, 
in ?\n    import ZODB.fsIndex
[..]   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/ZODB/__init__.py", line 
31, in ?\n    from DB import DB
[..]   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/ZODB/DB.py", line 27, in 
?\n    from ZODB.Connection import Connection
[..]   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/ZODB/Connection.py", 
line 33, in ?\n    from ZODB.blob import Blob, rename_or_copy_blob
[..]   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/ZODB/blob.py", line 34, 
in ?\n    from ZODB import utils
[..]   ImportError: cannot import name utils
</error1>

<error2>

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/mod_python/importer.py", line 1537, in HandlerDispatch
    default=default_handler, arg=req, silent=hlist.silent)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/mod_python/importer.py", line 1229, in _process_target
    result = _execute_target(config, req, object, arg)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/mod_python/importer.py", line 1128, in _execute_target
    result = object(arg)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/mod_python/publisher.py", line 204, in handler
    module = page_cache[req]
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/mod_python/importer.py", line 1059, in __getitem__
    return import_module(req.filename)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/mod_python/importer.py", line 296, in import_module
    log, import_path)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/mod_python/importer.py", line 680, in import_module
    execfile(file, module.__dict__)
  File "/opt/indico/www/htdocs/signIn.py", line 22, in ?
    from MaKaC.common.general import *
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/MaKaC/common/__init__.py", line 22, in ?
    from db import DBMgr
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/MaKaC/common/db.py", line 30, in ?
    from ZEO.ClientStorage import ClientStorage
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/ZEO/ClientStorage.py", line 34, in ?
    from ZEO.cache import ClientCache
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/ZEO/cache.py", line 36, in ?
    import ZODB.fsIndex
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/ZODB/__init__.py", line 31, in ?
    from DB import DB
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/ZODB/DB.py", line 27, in ?
    from ZODB.Connection import Connection
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/ZODB/Connection.py", line 33, in ?
    from ZODB.blob import Blob, rename_or_copy_blob
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/ZODB/blob.py", line 36, in ?
    import transaction
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/transaction/__init__.py", line 19, in ?
    from transaction._transaction import Transaction
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/transaction/_transaction.py", line 620, in ?
    class Savepoint:
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/zope/interface/advice.py", line 132, in advise
    return callback(newClass)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/zope/interface/declarations.py", line 484, in _implements_advice
    classImplements(cls, *interfaces)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/zope/interface/declarations.py", line 460, in classImplements
    spec = implementedBy(cls)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/zope/interface/declarations.py", line 300, in implementedByFallback
    spec = cls.__dict__.get('__implemented__')

RuntimeError: class.__dict__ not accessible in restricted mode
</error2>


Have you ever experience a problem like this? Is there any easy solution?
We use python 2.4.3, apache 2.2.3, mod_python 3.3.1.

Thank you so much in advance.

Best regards,
Jose

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