Of course the solution would end up just solidifying my noob status.

It looks like the problem was that I was not correctly setting the  
LD_LIBRARY_PATH for the couchdb user.  I had it set for my user  
account so all of the tests worked (e.g. checking couchjs), however  
when I issued the "sudo -u couchdb couchdb" command the path was not  
set for the couchdb user and the errors came back.

Thanks for your help everyone.  I absolutely appreciate it,

Bob


On May 12, 2008, at 6:29 AM, Christopher Lenz wrote:

> On 12.05.2008, at 12:11, Noah Slater wrote:
>> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:52:37AM +0200, Benoit Chesneau wrote:
>>> did you enabled debugmode in couch.ini , maybe there could be  
>>> more in
>>> couch.log?. There may be an erl.crashdump (or something like it,  
>>> can't
>>> remember exact name)  somewhere.
>>
>> I suspect it's to do with the custom SpiderMonkey installation.
>>
>> See previous email on the other thread for more details.
>
> As SpiderMonkey doesn't get involved until a view is created and  
> accessed, a problem here would not cause CouchDB to terminate on  
> *startup* of a new installation.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Christopher Lenz
>   cmlenz at gmx.de
>   http://www.cmlenz.net/
>