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Update: You should check out wildcard.fixpersistentutilities - it’s a fantastic solution to problems like this. Many thanks to Nathan Van Gheem, the author of the add on. Check out the link and see how to install it (temporarily) on your Plone instance that needs its site manager cleaned up.
Leftovers are typically useful when they’re in your fridge at home. They mean you don’t have to mess around making lunch for the next day for work, and can just grab them, and walk right out the door. Now, leftovers in the zope.component SiteManager aren’t so nice, especially when some Plone products fail to remove what they’ve registered. The consequences of this are that you’ve got references left which will break things when you uninstall/remove the physical eggs/files. These leftovers would be ones would be mutated food that comes to kill you after you’ve thrown it in the bin, assuming we follow the same analogy. But how to fix them?
Here’s the error message you might be faced with when trying to install or uninstall products — something that stops you might in your tracks:
2010-06-22T10:38:48 ERROR Zope.SiteErrorLog https://mysite.com/portal_quickinstaller/uninstallProducts
Traceback (innermost last):
Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 125, in publish
Module Zope2.App.startup, line 238, in commit
Module transaction._manager, line 96, in commit
Module transaction._transaction, line 395, in commit
Module transaction._transaction, line 495, in _commitResources
Module ZODB.Connection, line 510, in commit
Module ZODB.Connection, line 555, in _commit
Module ZODB.Connection, line 582, in _store_objects
Module ZODB.serialize, line 407, in serialize
Module ZODB.serialize, line 416, in _dump
PicklingError: Can't pickle <class 'p4a.plonevideoembed.interfaces.IVideoLinkSupport'>: import of module p4a.plonevideoembed.interfaces failed
Unsurprisingly, it’s similar to something I encountered before. Way back when, I hit the same issue with ZipFileTransport, and my fix for it is just as relevant today as it was then. Start up a zopepy session (or ipython) that still has the relevant classes in the system path, and run this:
from p4a.plonevideoembed.interfaces import IVideoLinkSupport as intclass from p4a.video.interfaces import IVideoSupport as intclass2 from zope.app.component.hooks import setSite from zope.component import getSiteManager setSite(portal) sm = getSiteManager() sm.unregisterUtility(component=None, provided=intclass) sm.unregisterUtility(component=None, provided=intclass2) #Even though unregister happened, it probably said it worked but left crap around. #Let's clean it up. #This intclass variables might not be right or perfectly complete. It's going to be the key present below, #so you can always find the right InterfaceClass manually and set it accordingly. del sm.utilities._adapters[0][intclass] del sm.utilities._subscribers[0][intclass] del sm.utilities._subscribers[0][intclass2] del sm.utilities._adapters[0][intclass2] #From here, search for a term to see if it's gone #Each should return -1. If not, you've done something wrong! str(sm.utilities._adapters[0]).find('p4a') str(sm.utilities._subscribers[0]).find('p4a') str(sm.utilities.__bases__[0].__dict__).find('p4a') import transaction transaction.commit()
Shut down your existing Plone/Zope instance and restart it. You should now be able to install or remove products accordingly again — and also get rid of those old packages’ physical files you don’t need.
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