Help with Debian Zope

[goopot]

Hello,

I'm trying to install zope on my debian account using

apt-get install zope

....things seem to work fine and I setup a super user, the zopectl then says it is starting but after a wait it says "failed". Anyone got pointers on where I look next to fix the problem?

Thanks,

Dave.

[retep]

Hi.

If you'd like someone at RimuHosting to take a look at this just pop in a support ticket.

In 'self-serve' mode I'd suggest a couple of general trouble-shooting tactics. First, run the startup script with bash -x, e.g.:
bash -x zopectl start

(presuming it is a bash script).

This may give you more information about what is failing.

Also: identify and inspect the zope logs to see what errors are being logged.

[goopot]

I think I've got it working. Most of the problems came from wanting to be bleeding edge and run 2.7 Zope. After editing the apt-get config file to get the "TESTING" version of the packages, doing some apt-gets and a reboot the server had a go at starting. The final piece of the jigsaw was to configure zope to know the hard-coded numeric IP of the machine -- it was trying to bind to ports/if's that it wasn't allowed to by default.

Thanks,

Dave.