From user-return-5777-apmail-couchdb-user-archive=couchdb.apache.org@couchdb.apache.org Sun Aug 02 19:18:43 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 27091 invoked from network); 2 Aug 2009 19:18:42 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 2 Aug 2009 19:18:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 6856 invoked by uid 500); 2 Aug 2009 19:18:46 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 6773 invoked by uid 500); 2 Aug 2009 19:18:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@couchdb.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 6762 invoked by uid 99); 2 Aug 2009 19:18:46 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:18:46 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [80.68.94.123] (HELO tumbolia.org) (80.68.94.123) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:18:36 +0000 Received: from nslater by tumbolia.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MXgZT-0001kF-9X for user@couchdb.apache.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:18:15 +0100 Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 20:18:15 +0100 From: Noah Slater To: user@couchdb.apache.org Subject: Re: I =?utf-8?B?Y2Fu4oCZdCByZWxheC4gSSBi?= =?utf-8?Q?rok?= =?utf-8?Q?e?= my couch upgrading dependencies. What might this error mean? Message-ID: <20090802191815.GB5103@tumbolia.org> Mail-Followup-To: user@couchdb.apache.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-Noah: Awesome User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 02:52:33PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > >        $ sudo -i -u couchdb couchdb > >        sudo: unable to change directory to  /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb: No > > such file or directory > >        couchdb: couchdb: is a directory > > > > Clearly I’m doing something very basically wrong? > > > > /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb is a directory isn't it? Check what the home directory of the couchdb user is: * Does it exist? * Does the couchdb user have permission? Best, -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater