Two Failures

I tried to do the zope installation on 8082. It failed to copy the Zope files to the installation directory and I had to bring back the old version of Zope. I modified metadataConfigure.dtml and metadataEdit.dtml to fix Jessica's problem. The doesn't seem to have worked, I'm still investigating.

Jessica's Problem

I worked all day on Jessica Kim's problem of disappearing metadata. I figured out that the cause was that some of the folders in the chain to the root aren't STFolders. They're ST Websites and manage_metadata explicitly checks for STFolders. I'm still trying to decide on the best way to fix the problem.

Zope and CVS

I added Zope to CVS and checked it back out again. I fixed some more phone numbers and started looking at Jessica Kim's metadata problem.

Zope Delayed

We didn't move Zope over today as planned. Instead we investigated some remaining issues, which turned out not to be the problem we thought they were. I also took part in the Staff Computing Project meeting on applications.

This and That

Bobby Edwards reported he had trouble logging into the ldap management interface. I finally figured he could fix the problem by changing his zope password, but this really needs a change in the LDAP manager code. A user reported a problem with the ext command and I modified it and had it tested. I looked at the STObjects metadata permissions problem, so far without much luck. We had to install the latest version of Zope to fix the problem with STLink and I did this in the afternoon.

Stuff

I continued reviewing the squid documentation, which I guess will be useful some day, but wasn't useful today because we decided not to modify the squid configuration files. I wrote up the installation procedure for zope and zeo and put it on the wiki. I changed the footer in the phonebook report generated from ldap to remove references to Laurel and Goddard. And I attended the kickoff meeting of the Staff Computing Project committee.

Zeo Again

I studied up on the Zeo documentation and was able to configure the Zeo server and Zope as its client and then start them up. Greg is having some problems configuring squid so that we can flush its cache. I looked at the documentation to see what I could find, but haven't found the solution so far.

Zeo

I worked at updating the alternate phone field and bringing zeo up on battra.

Problem Solved

We resolved the problem with the new version of Zope crashing and/or not displaying the left hand menu in the management interface. It turns out that when Zope traverses the hierarchy to build the menu it opens each database connection. If the connection is invalid, it waits for a timeout. Greg fixed the problem by deleting obsolete database connectors. Performance of the new version of Zope is now greatand I can honestly say it's ready for production. After fixing that problem, I started up the squid server and ran the test suite. No problems were encountered.

Sybase Adapter

I determined the problem with the Zope crashiness was the Sybase database adapter. With Greg's help, I recompiled the adapter (this took some doing.) So far Zope hasn't crashed, but there's a problem with it hanging, so we're not out of the woods yet. Greg pointed out that STMethods is having a problem with has_role. I'll investigate it tomorrow.