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From: Paul Davis <paul.joseph.davis@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 15:45:05 -0600
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Subject: Re: couchdb not listening on its port
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On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Mark Crispin
<Mark.Crispin@messagingarchitects.com> wrote:
> I've been giving the delightful task of figuring out how to make the
> current version of couchdb run under SLES 2.6.32.54-0.3-pae (not my
> choice!), and have had a miserable time of it. Here is the procedure that
> I've followed:
>
> ----------
> Install Mozilla Spider Monkey:
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/js/js185-1.0.0.tar.=
gz
>
> Install icu:
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/4.8.1.1/icu4c-=
4_8_1_1-RHEL6-i386.tgz
>
>
> Install CouchDB:
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http://apache.mirrors.hoobly.com//couchdb/1.1.1/apache-cou=
chdb-1.1.1.tar.gz
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0requires: Mozilla Spider Monkey
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0requires: icu
>
> Install Erlang:
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R15B.tar.gz
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0wants: wxWidgets (for wx)?
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0wants: fop (documentation only?)?
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0wants: Java compiler (for jinterface)?
>

For Erlang you should be able to "touch lib/wx/SKIP" to disable its
requirement for wx. fop and the JVM are soft dependencies. You can
compile without either of those just fine. I usually force java to not
build by specifying --without-javac just so I don't have to groan as
it compiles jinterface.

> useradd couchdb
>
> sudo mkdir ~couchdb
>
> sudo chown couchdb ~couchdb
>
> sudo chgrp users ~couchdb
>
> Remove the -e from the first line of /usr/local/etc/rc.d/couchdb
>
> start couchdb - sudo /usr/local/etc/rc.d/couchdb start
>
> See if couchdb is listening on its port? - FAIL
>
> ----------
>
> OK, so I then find
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.couchdb.user/5639
> and indeed couchdb is not listening on port 5984 (nor, as far as I can
> tell from lsof, any other port) but seems to be running according to ps:
>
> couchdb =A022204 =A00.0 =A00.0 =A0 2848 =A01268 ? =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0S =A0 =
=A0Mar07 =A0 0:00 /bin/sh -e /usr/local/bin/couchdb -a /usr/local/etc/couch=
db/default.ini -a /usr/local/etc/couchdb/local.ini -b -r 5 -p /usr/local/va=
r/run/couchdb/couchdb.pid -o /dev/null -e /dev/null -R
> couchdb =A022214 =A00.0 =A00.0 =A0 2848 =A0 652 ? =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0S =A0 =
=A0Mar07 =A0 0:00 /bin/sh -e /usr/local/bin/couchdb -a /usr/local/etc/couch=
db/default.ini -a /usr/local/etc/couchdb/local.ini -b -r 5 -p /usr/local/va=
r/run/couchdb/couchdb.pid -o /dev/null -e /dev/null -R
> couchdb =A022215 =A00.0 =A00.5 =A014192 =A07968 ? =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Sl =A0 M=
ar07 =A0 0:34 /usr/local/lib/erlang/erts-5.9/bin/beam -Bd -K true -A 4 -- -=
root /usr/local/lib/erlang -progname erl -- -home /home/couchdb -- -noshell=
 -noinput -sasl errlog_type error -couch_ini /usr/local/etc/couchdb/default=
.ini /usr/local/etc/couchdb/local.ini /usr/local/etc/couchdb/default.ini /u=
sr/local/etc/couchdb/local.ini -s couch -pidfile /usr/local/var/run/couchdb=
/couchdb.pid -heart
> couchdb =A022223 =A00.0 =A00.0 =A0 1664 =A0 416 ? =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Ss =A0 M=
ar07 =A0 0:14 heart -pid 22215 -ht 11
>
> I tried the solution in that web page and it doesn't seem to make a
> difference, so now I'm stumped. I've spent days on this going through web
> pages wnd trying various things with no luck.
>
> I'm certain that this is something truly simple and stupid, but it has
> eluded me. Anyone willing to give me a clue-by-four?
>
> mark crispin: senior software engineer
> mark.crispin@netmail.com | +1.514.392.9220 ext 297 | +1.866.497.0101
>
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