#4 — plone startup error with "plone3_buildout" template when you accidentally enter a http port number > 65k!

by Armin Stross-Radschinski — last modified Dec 31, 2009 02:56 PM

State	Rejected
Version:	—
Area	General
Issue type	Bug
Severity	Medium
Submitted by	Armin Stross-Radschinski
Submitted on	Feb 27, 2008
Responsible	—
Target release:	—

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Symptom:
When you enter a HTTP port number greater than 65536 when running the "plone3_bildout" template with paster you get an error "TypeError: an integer is required" when starting Zope in foreground.

Reason:
only integer HTTP port numbers below or equal 65536 are usually possible.

Solution:
Use lower port numbers by editing the buildout.cfg file manually and run bin/buildout -o again.

Optional To do:
Add a validator to the ZopeSkel code that is responsible for checking input values and give a feedback and maybe a chance to reenter the value again. If higher port numbers are possible in the future (I do not know!) give a warning instead.

Notes:
Keep this info online even when do not solve this, because it is useful if someone googles for this issue!
Thank you for ZopeSkel! I love it!

Armin

Steps to reproduce:: with ZopeSkel 1.6 installed create a plone3_buildout with paster:

paster create -t plone3_buildout

...
Enter http_port (HTTP port) [8080]: 500000 # Enter a port number greater than 65536
...

After you run
% python bootstrap.py
and
% bin/buildout
and try to start the server the first time with "bin/instance fg" in foreground mode you get something similar to the following error:

% bin/instance fg
"/home/youcan/instances/youcan/parts/instance/bin/runzope" -X "debug-mode=on"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/youcan/instances/youcan/parts/zope2/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/run.py", line 56, in ?
    run()
  File "/home/youcan/instances/youcan/parts/zope2/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/run.py", line 21, in run
    starter.prepare()
  File "/home/youcan/instances/youcan/parts/zope2/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/__init__.py", line 96, in prepare
    self.setupServers()
  File "/home/youcan/instances/youcan/parts/zope2/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/__init__.py", line 227, in setupServers
    servers.append(server.create())
  File "/home/youcan/instances/youcan/parts/zope2/lib/python/ZServer/datatypes.py", line 84, in create
    logger_object=access_logger)
  File "/home/youcan/instances/youcan/parts/zope2/lib/python/ZServer/HTTPServer.py", line 433, in __init__
    http_server.__init__(self, ip, port, resolver, logger_object)
  File "/home/youcan/instances/youcan/parts/zope2/lib/python/ZServer/medusa/http_server.py", line 573, in __init__
    self.bind ((ip, port))
  File "/home/youcan/python/Python-2.4.4/lib/python2.4/asyncore.py", line 304, in bind
    return self.socket.bind(addr)
  File "<string>", line 1, in bind
TypeError: an integer is required

Added by Israel Saeta Pérez on Dec 31, 2009 02:56 PM

Issue state: Unconfirmed → Rejected

This is a duplicate of http://plone.org/products/zopeskel/issues/3

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