[Zope] Help!

[Dieter Maurer]

Michael writes:
 > I have 3 different versions of Zope running on my machine. 2.33, 2.41, 
 > 2,43.  I was working on my site in 2.41 and shut it down and started up 
 > 2.33 to export some items.  I then shut down 2.33 and fired up 2.41 
 > again and when I logged into the management interface, everything was 
 > gone.  My site folder, all of my installed products, and the wierdest 
 > thing of all, I had to delete the default index_html file in my root 
 > folder to get apache to work properly, and it is back!  It looks just 
 > like I just installed it from the tarball.  I checked the 2.43 site and 
 > everything in it is gone also. The 2.33 install is still fine.
 > 
 > I have backups, but is this normal behavior???
No, I do not think so.

Do you have Python 2.1.3 installed? If not, do it.
Also, upgrade to Zope 2.4.4. Python 2.1.1 and Zope 2.4.x (x <= 3)
contain memory usage bugs that can exhibit all kinds of weird behaviour.
Though, I did not yet here about something drastic as you report now.


Dieter