[Product-Developers] Re: Product installed but not listed as "installed" - remains in the "installable" list for portal_quickinstaller
David Bain
david.bain at alteroo.com
Sun Mar 16 07:42:13 UTC 2008
Just reporting back to say that I found the culprit. I had separate product
installed with a badly written skins.xml (badly formed xml actually).
It's concerning that a completely different product with a bad generic setup
(GS) profile could cause a problem for my product, but a relief to find the
problem.
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Tim Knapp <duffyd at kokorice.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 19:36 -0500, David Bain wrote:
> > Tim,
> > Thanks for the feedback.
>
> No problem.
>
> > It seems to be a problem peculiar to a single zope instance, must
> > have a messed up GS somewhere in another product as you suggest. I've
> > tried it on two other zope instances running Plone 3.0.x and it
> > installs incident free.
>
> Great to know!
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Tim Knapp <duffyd at kokorice.org>
> > wrote:
> > Hello again David,
> >
> > On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 10:08 -0500, David Bain wrote:
> > > I have a cssregistry.xml and jsregistry.xml file in my
> > > profiles/default directory. Do I need more than that?
> >
> >
> > The best way I find to ensure you've got a properly configured
> > GS
> > profile is by generating it using paster create -t
> > plone3_theme as this
> > will create your zcml slug, profiles dir, setuphandler.py, and
> > the
> > marker file that will ensure the profile only gets run if you
> > have
> > specified as such in QI. But as I said sometimes *other* GS
> > profiles may
> > not include this info (esp. the marker file) and thus run when
> > yours is
> > run and cause errors.
> >
> > Generally the easiest way to determine if there's an error is
> > to have
> > your zope instance in debug mode and run via zopectl fg and
> > check the
> > console. And also to check the log created by GS setup when
> > the profile
> > is run (though this may not be present when run via the QI).
> >
> > HTH,
> > Tim
> >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 3:54 AM, Tim Knapp
> > <duffyd at kokorice.org>
> > > wrote:
> > > Hi David,
> > >
> > > Just one other thing I have noticed in the past that
> > could
> > > cause this is
> > > when one of the import steps in GenericSetup failed
> > (btw this
> > > could also
> > > be caused by another GS profile that is getting run
> > (due to a
> > > badly
> > > setup GS profile) automatically when yours is being
> > imported).
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > > Tim
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 12:07 -0500, David Bain wrote:
> > > > And no errors are showing up in debug mode.
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:07 PM, David Bain
> > > <david.bain at alteroo.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > I know it installed properly because I can
> > now add
> > > the new
> > > > portal type to my plone site.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Derek
> > Broughton
> > > > <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> > > > David Bain wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > What would cause a product to
> > install but
> > > not be
> > > > listed as installed?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Many errors in the install
> > process.
> > > >
> > > > > I've created a product which,
> > when
> > > installing, it
> > > > installs successfully
> > > > > but remains in the the
> > "installable" list
> > > for
> > > > quickinstaller. This happens
> > > > > when installing the product
> > under Plone
> > > 3.0.
> > > > > Plone 2.5.x behaves as expected.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > How do you know it installed
> > successfully?
> > > I'd say it
> > > > didn't. Usually
> > > > starting "zopectl deubg" will show
> > you an
> > > error, even
> > > > though you didn't see
> > > > one in the install.
> > > > --
> > > > derek
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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