[Zope] Help!!! Zope won't start -- StorageSystemError

[Michael Dunstan]

On 8/28/05, Dan Gaibel <dg76 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> This is my first post to this list and I'm desperate for help. I'm running
> Zope 2.6.1 with Python 2.1.3. My Zope instance died today and won't come
> back. When I try to start it, I get:
> 
> 2005-08-27T20:58:15 PANIC(300) z2 Startup exception
> Traceback (innermost last):
>    File /home/lrc/z2.py, line 497, in ?
>    File <string>, line 1, in ?
>    File /home/lrc/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 37, in ?
>    File /home/lrc/lib/python/ZODB/FileStorage.py, line 213, in __init__
>    File /home/lrc/lib/python/ZODB/lock_file.py, line 33, in lock_file
> StorageSystemError: Could not lock the database file.  There must be
> another process that has opened the file.

lock_file.py has a simple try/except block around that line. As a
debugging step remove the try/except block and see if you get more
verbose exception details.