On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Mark Hahn wrote: > I've got an old install of  build-couchdb that works, so I'll use that now. >  I guess the next thing to try would be to build from source instead of > using build-couchdb, but I've never had any luck doing that before. You are building from source. That's why I named it "Build CouchDB" and that's why I think it's a real CouchDB bug depending on the particulars of the initialization environment. -- Iris Couch