[Zope] Zope failed. Ok after rm /var/lib/zope/var/cound*

Jens Vagelpohl jens@zope.com
Wed, 31 Oct 2001 07:35:27 -0500


martin,

AFAIK zope itself does not create any file like that. could it be that you 
are running a product that might create that file? some file system 
counter maybe?

jens


On Wednesday, October 31, 2001, at 07:01 , Edwin Martin wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We run a Zope website for almost a year now and the last
> week Zope failed twice. Instead of the homepage, we got
> an error message.
>
> Strange thing is that the management pages and a password
> protected part of the site worked ok.
>
> I could get Zope working by:
> 1) Shutting Zope down
> 2) Deleting the file /var/lib/zope/var/cound.998308977.097.counter
> 3) Starting Zope
>
> What's so special about this cound* file?
>
> This is the version we are running:
>
> Zope Version Zope 2.3.0 (source release, python 1.5.2, linux2)
> Python Version 1.5.2 (#0, Apr 3 2000, 14:46:48) [GCC 2.95.2 20000313 
> (Debian GNU/Linux)]
> System Platform linux2
>
> Thanks,
> Edwin Martin.