if bulidout re-creates the part of a running zope instance, restarting doesn't work

[Alex Morega]

A zope instance, created using plone.recipe.zope2instance, is running. If I change the buildout configuration and re-run buildout, and this results in uninstalling + installing, then the "restart" command will not work (either the shell command, or the ZMI button in control panel). Stop, followed by start, works fine though.

[Alex Morega (alex-morega)]

I finally figured it out: the Zope 2 daemon manager would spawn a new Zope process with the current directory pointing to the recently-removed instance folder. Modifying Zope-2.10.9/lib/python/zdaemon/zdrun.py to update the cwd fixed the problem. I'm wondering if the fix could be made part of plone.recipe.zope2instance.

[Hanno Schlichting (hannosch)]

The provided patch is against zdaemon, where this should be considered. It seems this is a general problem and could happen to any process, not just Zope2.

[Christian Theune (ctheune)]

Hah, one of the long-running things that annoys me. :) I do know that the zope3 recipes do not have that issue, although they also make use of zdaemon.

[Roman Horenovsky (rhproperty)]

Hello, I assume that this is the same problem I'm experiencing when attempting to restart any process (see bellow) - zdaemon gives "daemon manager not running" when I use 'restart' command.

Any plans fixing it so we can use the 'restart' command? I'm using zdaemon 3.0.5 from pypi on Ubuntu 12.04 32bit.

Regards, Roman

roman@roman-VirtualBox:~/zdaemon$ zdaemon -p 'sleep 100' start
.
daemon process started, pid=5012
roman@roman-VirtualBox:~/zdaemon$ zdaemon -p 'sleep 100' stop

daemon process stopped
roman@roman-VirtualBox:~/zdaemon$ zdaemon -p 'sleep 100' start
.
daemon process started, pid=5018
roman@roman-VirtualBox:~/zdaemon$ zdaemon -p 'sleep 100' restart
. . . . . . . . . . .
daemon manager not running

[celeron55 (celeron55)]

I am having this same issue on zdaemon 3.0.5 on fedora 20 when running miscellaneous processes.

It looks like this hasn't been fixed in 4.0.0 either.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

The zdaemon project on Launchpad has been archived at the request of the Zope developers (see https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/683589 and https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/685285). If this bug is still relevant, please refile it at https://github.com/zopefoundation/zdaemon.