This is biting me almost every time I startup a Zope instance with Plone sites in mounted storages. Don't know if it's relevant, but the filesystem on this box is quite slow. Here are relevant bits from the log. Zope 2.9.9. 2010-01-27T05:11:04 INFO ZServer HTTP server started at Wed Jan 27 05:11:04 2010 Hostname: 0.0.0.0 Port: 12101 ------ 2010-01-27T05:11:04 INFO ZServer ICP server started Address: 0.0.0.0 Port: 7102 ------ [...] 2010-01-27T05:11:33 INFO Zope Ready to handle requests ------ 2010-01-27T05:11:33 INFO ZODB.lock_file locked ------ 2010-01-27T05:11:33 WARNING ZODB.lock_file failed to lock ------ 2010-01-27T05:11:33 WARNING ZODB.lock_file failed to lock ------ 2010-01-27T05:11:33 WARNING ZODB.lock_file failed to lock ------ [...] ------ 2010-01-27T05:14:32 ERROR Zope.ZODBMountPoint Failed to mount database. exceptions.OSError ([Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/var/filestorage/siteData.fs.lock') Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/parts/zope2/lib/python/Products/ZODBMountPoint/MountedObject.py", line 257, in _getOrOpenObject conn = self._getMountedConnection(anyjar) File "/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/parts/zope2/lib/python/Products/ZODBMountPoint/MountedObject.py", line 147, in _getMountedConnection self._getDB() File "/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/parts/zope2/lib/python/Products/ZODBMountPoint/MountedObject.py", line 157, in _getDB return getConfiguration().getDatabase(self._path) File "/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/parts/zope2/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/datatypes.py", line 280, in getDatabase db = factory.open(name, self.databases) File "/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/parts/zope2/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/datatypes.py", line 178, in open DB = self.createDB(database_name, databases) File "/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/parts/zope2/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/datatypes.py", line 175, in createDB return ZODBDatabase.open(self, databases) File "/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/parts/zope2/lib/python/ZODB/config.py", line 107, in open storage.close() File "/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/parts/zope2/lib/python/ZODB/FileStorage/FileStorage.py", line 400, in close self._lock_file.close() File "/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/parts/zope2/lib/python/ZODB/lock_file.py", line 79, in close os.unlink(self._path) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/var/filestorage/siteData.fs.lock' ------ 2010-01-27T05:14:53 ERROR Zope.ZODBMountPoint Failed to mount database. exceptions.OSError ([Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/var/filestorage/siteData.fs.lock') Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/parts/zope2/lib/python/Products/ZODBMountPoint/MountedObject.py", line 257, in _getOrOpenObject conn = self._getMountedConnection(anyjar) File "/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/parts/zope2/lib/python/Products/ZODBMountPoint/MountedObject.py", line 147, in _getMountedConnection self._getDB() File "/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/parts/zope2/lib/python/Products/ZODBMountPoint/MountedObject.py", line 157, in _getDB return getConfiguration().getDatabase(self._path) File "/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/parts/zope2/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/datatypes.py", line 280, in getDatabase db = factory.open(name, self.databases) File "/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/parts/zope2/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/datatypes.py", line 178, in open DB = self.createDB(database_name, databases) File "/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/parts/zope2/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/datatypes.py", line 175, in createDB return ZODBDatabase.open(self, databases) File "/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/parts/zope2/lib/python/ZODB/config.py", line 107, in open storage.close() File "/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/parts/zope2/lib/python/ZODB/FileStorage/FileStorage.py", line 400, in close self._lock_file.close() File "/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/parts/zope2/lib/python/ZODB/lock_file.py", line 79, in close os.unlink(self._path) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/var/filestorage/siteData.fs.lock' ------ 2010-01-27T05:15:02 ERROR Zope.ZODBMountPoint Failed to mount database. exceptions.ValueError (database_name 'site' already in databases) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/parts/zope2/lib/python/Products/ZODBMountPoint/MountedObject.py", line 257, in _getOrOpenObject conn = self._getMountedConnection(anyjar) File "/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/parts/zope2/lib/python/Products/ZODBMountPoint/MountedObject.py", line 147, in _getMountedConnection self._getDB() File "/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/parts/zope2/lib/python/Products/ZODBMountPoint/MountedObject.py", line 157, in _getDB return getConfiguration().getDatabase(self._path) File "/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/parts/zope2/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/datatypes.py", line 280, in getDatabase db = factory.open(name, self.databases) File "/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/parts/zope2/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/datatypes.py", line 178, in open DB = self.createDB(database_name, databases) File "/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/parts/zope2/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/datatypes.py", line 175, in createDB return ZODBDatabase.open(self, databases) File "/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/parts/zope2/lib/python/ZODB/config.py", line 105, in open databases=databases) File "/home/zope/instances/instance1/site-buildout_1.0.5/parts/zope2/lib/python/ZODB/DB.py", line 262, in __init__ raise ValueError("database_name %r already in databases" % ValueError: database_name 'site' already in databases ------