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From: Jens Alfke <jens@couchbase.com>
To: "user@couchdb.apache.org" <user@couchdb.apache.org>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:52:50 -0700
Subject: Bug in Debian /etc/init.d/couchdb script
Thread-Topic: Bug in Debian /etc/init.d/couchdb script
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I just got a Raspberry Pi, put the "Raspbian" distro of Debian on the SD ca=
rd, and of course wasted no time installing CouchDB 1.2 via apt-get. Unfort=
unately it fails to start up, without some manual tweaking.

The problem is that the directory /var/run/couchdb gets created with root o=
wnership, so couchdb (running as user 'couchdb') can't write to it. This ca=
uses startup to abort.

The fix is very simple: just edit /etc/init.d/couchdb and add the following=
 line immediately after 'mkdir -p "$RUN_DIR"' (line 86):
	chown couchdb:couchdb "$RUN_DIR"

This seems like kind of a glaring issue :/ Is it known? Is it specific to R=
aspbian somehow, or to all Debians?

=97Jens=