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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 15:47:59 +0100
From: Martin Hewitt <martin@thenoi.se>
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This one's further complicated by the fact that, after spitting out errors at start, CouchDB appears to operate normally with no further errors. Generating a view produces another error, but the view is generated correctly, and further view updates do not produce errors. 

Very curious behaviour. 

Martin


On Wednesday, 3 October 2012 at 15:44, Adam Kocoloski wrote:

> This one in particular has always been a bit of a mystery to me. Sometimes it seems to be completely spurious.
> 
> Adam
> 
> On Oct 3, 2012, at 8:08 AM, Martin Hewitt <martin@thenoi.se (mailto:martin@thenoi.se)> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Dave, 
> > 
> > Thanks for these links, no luck on my current install, but I may scrub down and start again, as I can't really map what's going on, so probably won't be able to work out what makes a difference! 
> > 
> > Martin
> > 
> > 
> > On Wednesday, 3 October 2012 at 13:01, Dave Cottlehuber wrote:
> > 
> > > On 3 October 2012 13:35, Martin Hewitt <martin@thenoi.se (mailto:martin@thenoi.se)> wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > 
> > > > I've recently compiled CouchDB from source, on an EC2 instance, and I'm seeing a lot of eacces errors of the form:
> > > > 
> > > > [Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:32:22 GMT] [error] [<0.19.0>] {error_report,<0.9.0>,
> > > > {<0.19.0>,std_error,
> > > > "File operation error: eacces. Target: ./mochiweb.beam (http://web.beam). Function: get_file. Process: code_server."}}
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Now I know this is a permissions issue, but I can't work out what permissions I need to change.
> > > > 
> > > > I've changed the owner on the data directories, ERLang directories any many more besides, but I'm still getting the error.
> > > > 
> > > > If anyone could point me in the right direction, I'd be hugely grateful.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > 
> > > > Martin
> > > 
> > > Most of the info is in here:
> > > https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/master/INSTALL.Unix#L175-187
> > > and some on the wiki
> > > http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_Ubuntu or similar ones
> > > for other linux variants may help.
> > > 
> > > su to the couch user, and then run couchdb interactively `couchdb -i`
> > > which sometimes spits out a moment of clarity.
> > > 
> > > IIRC there was a recent-ish example on the user@ mailing list but I
> > > unfortunately don't recall the solution!
> > > 
> > > A+
> > > Dave
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 


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