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Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 17:18:15 +0400
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Subject: Re: couchdb -n vs couchdb -n -a couch.ini
From: Alexander Shorin <kxepal@gmail.com>
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To see what happening:

$ couchdb -n -a /tmp/couch.ini -c
/tmp/couch.ini

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On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Jan Lehnardt <jan@apache.org> wrote:
>
> On Jul 14, 2013, at 11:30 , Jan Lehnardt <jan@apache.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jul 14, 2013, at 11:23 , Jan Lehnardt <jan@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 14, 2013, at 11:13 , Jan Lehnardt <jan@apache.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Heya,
>>>>
>>>> I=E2=80=99m running into an odd issue:
>>>>
>>>> couchdb -n starts just fine
>>>> couchdb -n -a couch.ini (where couch.ini is an empty file) fails:
>>>>
>>>> Apache CouchDB 1.3.0 (LogLevel=3Dinfo) is starting.
>>>> {"init terminating in do_boot",{{badmatch,{error,{bad_return,{{couch_a=
pp,start,[normal,["/usr/local/etc/couchdb/default.ini","/usr/local/etc/couc=
hdb/local.ini"]]},{'EXIT',{{badmatch,{error,shutdown}},[{couch_server_sup,s=
tart_server,1,[{file,"couch_server_sup.erl"},{line,98}]},{application_maste=
r,start_it_old,4,[{file,"application_master.erl"},{line,274}]}]}}}}}},[{cou=
ch,start,0,[{file,"couch.erl"},{line,18}]},{init,start_it,1,[]},{init,start=
_em,1,[]}]}}
>>>>
>>>> Why would that be? :)
>>>
>>> It is because CouchDB expects at least two ini files. Thanks all :)
>>
>> Hm, no, that=E2=80=99s not it.
>>
>> Stay tuned for more live debugging. (no seriously, any help would be gre=
atly appreciated :)
>
> it seems like couchdb -n still keeps the system default ini files and cou=
chdb -n /tmp/couchdb.ini uses only this empty one and CouchDB can=E2=80=99t=
 start without any ini files (which it should, but doesn=E2=80=99t)
>
> So, both the description of -n (that it resets *all* ini files, including=
 the system defaults) is incorrect as well as CouchDB not starting without =
default.ini (at least) should be a bug
>
> Jan
> --
>
>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> (note that the ini files you see in the trace are hardcoded on build-t=
ime and are not actually used here.)
>>>>
>>>> Best
>>>> Jan
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>
>>
>