Sliding down the zope : was the continuing zaga of zope

[Patrick Newberry]

Initial Problem: After install of zope / plone could not log into zope.
Using admin and standard password etc.

Initially I tried the apt-get remove then reinstall and when plone was
installing it did ask me for a password which I set as I thought I did
before, but again it did not seem to work when I brought  up zope.

Then Derek recommeneded I use apt-get purge to remove the configuration
data as well. 

Then I had some problems on the install with some dependency issues such
as:

<example>
Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
specify a solution). root at hope:/home/goshawk # apt-get remove plone -f
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Package
plone is not installed, so not removed You might want to run `apt-get -f
install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet
dependencies:
  zope-btreefolder2: Depends: zope2.7 but it is not going to be
installed or
                              zope
  zope-cmfactionicons: Depends: zope2.7 but it is not going to be
installed or
                                zope

</example>

<example>
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
specify a solution). root at hope:/home/goshawk # apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be
installed:
  zope-cmf1.4 zope2.7
Suggested packages:
  python2.3-unit zope-book zope-devguide
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  zope-cmf1.4 zope2.7
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 53 not upgraded. Need to
get 2836kB of archives. After unpacking 13.9MB of additional disk space
will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hoary/universe zope2.7 2.7.5-1ubuntu1
[2591kB] Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hoary/universe zope2.7
2.7.5-1ubuntu1
  Error reading from server. Remote end closed connection [IP:
130.239.18.137 80] Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hoary/universe
zope-cmf1.4 1.4.7-3ubuntu3 [245kB] Fetched 245kB in 37m20s (109B/s)
Failed to fetch
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/z/zope2.7/zope2.7_2.7.
5-1ubuntu1_i386.deb  Error reading from server. Remote end closed
connection [IP: 130.239.18.137 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with
--fix-missing? root at hope:/home/goshawk #apt_get remove zope
</example>

Well after getting the Error reading from server and not being sure if
the problem was on my end or else where, I went into Synoptic and found
that there were some broken packages. I'm not exactly sure of how close
Synoptic and apt-get are to each other,but there must be some
relationship. Anyway, selected fix broken packages and got an error from
server as well, but after it seemed to have done a bit of work. During
this process it did again ask me about admin and password. 

By this time my wife had gently reminded that I needed to get my butt in
bed as I did have a job to go to in the morning. 

So What the heck, I pulled up the browser, put in the
http://localhost:9673 and when I typed in admin and password, it worked
like a champ. Got zope. I then via the zope application created an
instance of plone and well it works, I'm happy, not not exactly sure why
it is working now vs before. 

Anyway on to Plone...

Pat Newberry
www.gypsyfarm.com

:

There is no hope, but I might be wrong.