the /etc/init.d/zope script in zope-2.5.1 does not successfully start zope because the script fails to have #!/sbin/runscript as its first line. Further, it also fails to use python2.1 (recommended) and instead attempts to use python2.2 (to its ultimate detriment.) http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~rjkroege/zope contains a version of the script that I modified to work. The script also depends on the command /usr/lib/portage/bin/use which was not available on my system. I hacked one in python: http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~rjkroege/use that might be useful. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. /etc/init.d/zope start 2. 3. Actual Results: Zope failed to start Expected Results: Zope should have started Portage 2.0.47-r8 (, [unavailable], glibc-2.3.1-r3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20 sparc64 sun4u GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="sparc arts apm avi crypt cups encode esd fbcon gif gtk gnome imlib java jpeg kde libwww mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis oss opengl png pdflib qt sdl spell truetype X xv xml2 xmms zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline tcpd pam ssl perl python" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="sparc-sun4u-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mcpu=ultrasparc -mtune=ultrasparc -O3 -pipe -falign-functions=4 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=ultrasparc -mtune=ultrasparc -O3 -pipe -falign-functions=4 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
zope 2.5.1 seems a bit outdated. Have you tried zope-2.6.1? It's in Portage and it doesn't have the problems with old one you've found. I use 2.6.1 on few production locations and cannot report any problems of zope itself so far.
I have now tried zope-2.6.1. There are other problems -- I will file a separate bug. They are actually worse in that (at least so far) they appear to be more difficult to fix.
Does this problem still occur?
your two links point to the same file, the init script is missing ;) could you please test zope-2.6.1 on sparc? shell we close this bug as it is working in zope-2.6* ?
if this still occurs please reopen
