[Zope] Disturbing, inexplicable "broken product" entropy?

[Alexander Staubo]

Turns out upgrading to 2.0.0b5 brought the "broken" objects back to
life. I should have waited a few minutes before crying wolf. Duh!

-- 
Alexander Staubo             http://www.mop.no/~alex/
"QED?" said Russell.
"It's Latin," said Morgan. "It means, 'So there you bastard'."
--Robert Rankin, _Nostramadus Ate My Hamster_

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Staubo [mailto:alex@mop.no]
> Sent: 20. august 1999 20:56
> To: Zope Mailing List (E-mail)
> Subject: [Zope] Disturbing, inexplicable "broken product" entropy?
> 
> 
> Is my database detoriating? All the time now, there is a disturbing
> trend for objects suddenly to cease to function, and they turn up as
> "broken". Clicking on the object, I get this:
> 
>   This object is broken because the unknown product that 
>   created it is no longer installed or is installed 
>   incorrectly. Please contact your product vendor for 
>   assistance. Note that the data associated with this 
>   product has not been lost, and will be accessible 
>   again if the product is reinstalled. 
> 
> Except we're not talking about product class instances at all -- these
> objects are DTML Methods, images, folders!
> 
> Just now a folder that worked fine yesterday was no longer available.
> Augh! I suspect I'm suffering from spurious data loss, but 
> why, and how
> to fix it?
> 
> This is Zope 2.0.0b1; I'm upgrading to b5 right now. If what I'm
> describing is a known bug, please let me know and I'll sleep a lot
> easier tonight.
> 
> -- 
> Alexander Staubo             http://www.mop.no/~alex/
> "QED?" said Russell.
> "It's Latin," said Morgan. "It means, 'So there you bastard'."
> --Robert Rankin, _Nostramadus Ate My Hamster_
> 
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