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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 04:57:37 +0100
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Subject: Re: Starting CouchDB on Ubuntu (trunk rev 821585)
From: Fidel Viegas <fidel.viegas@gmail.com>
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Hi Andy,

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Andreas Wenk
<a.wenk@netzmeister-st-pauli.de> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have some trouble getting CouchDB to start.
>
> I have a local Ubuntu (Linux duke 2.6.28-15-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Au=
g
> 18 18:40:08 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux) and CouchDB trunk (rev 821585). As
> usual, I followed the advice in the README (adduser, chmod, chown). Now
> starting CouchDB:
>
> $ sudo -i -u couchdb couchdb -b
> Apache CouchDB has started, time to relax.
>
> $ ps -ef
> couchdb =A0 9203 =A0 =A0 1 =A00 21:21 pts/1 =A0 =A000:00:00 /bin/sh -e
> /usr/local/bin/couchdb -a /usr/local/etc/couchdb/default.ini -a /
> couchdb =A0 9212 =A09203 =A00 21:21 pts/1 =A0 =A000:00:00 /bin/sh -e
> /usr/local/bin/couchdb -a /usr/local/etc/couchdb/default.ini -a /
> couchdb =A0 9213 =A09212 =A04 21:21 pts/1 =A0 =A000:00:00
> /usr/local/lib/erlang/erts-5.7.3/bin/beam -Bd -K true -- -root /usr/local=
/li
> couchdb =A0 9218 =A09213 =A00 21:21 ? =A0 =A0 =A0 =A000:00:00 heart -pid =
9213 -ht 11
>
> but:
>
> $ curl http://127.0.0.1:5984
> curl: (7) couldn't connect to host
>
> and
>
> $ sudo -i -u couchdb couchdb -d
> Apache CouchDB is not running.
>
> Any idea what's going wrong? I did the same in the office on a VM Debian
> Lenny without having any problems.


I have actually experienced the same as you on the same environment. I
didn't install from the trunk, but from the repositories.

What I did was install couchdb with apt-get install couchdb, and when
I installed erlang this problem came up.

So, I think it has to do with the version of the erlang interpreter,
because as soon as I removed it, couchdb was running again.

I haven't really played much with couchdb, but it was nice you raised
this issue as I am using the same environment as you and I will start
playing with couchdb soon.

If you happen to find out the real cause, please report back your experienc=
e.

Regards,

Fidel.