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Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 16:33:05 +0100
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Subject: Re: init terminating in do_boot
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Are you sure couchdb's startup script isn't "su"'ing to a different
user, though?

On 31 May 2012 16:22, CGS <cgsmcmlxxv@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear lists,
>
> I recently installed CouchDB 1.2.0 from source on CentOS 5.8 (final) with
> Erlang/OTP R15B01 (installed from source with no errors at installation).
> It reported no errors in configuration (not even warnings) and no errors =
in
> make && sudo make install. Still, I keep receiving the following message
> when I try to start it:
>
> Apache CouchDB 1.2.0 (LogLevel=3Dinfo) is starting.
> {"init terminating in
> do_boot",{{badmatch,{error,{bad_return,{{couch_app,start,[normal,["/usr/l=
ocal/etc/couchdb/default.ini","/usr/local/etc/couchdb/local.ini"]]},{'EXIT'=
,{{badmatch,{error,shutdown}},[{couch_server_sup,start_server,1,[{file,"cou=
ch_server_sup.erl"},{line,98}]},{application_master,start_it_old,4,[{file,"=
application_master.erl"},{line,274}]}]}}}}}},[{couch,start,0,[{file,"couch.=
erl"},{line,18}]},{init,start_it,1,[]},{init,start_em,1,[]}]}}
>
> couch_server_sup.erl (line 98): {ok, Pid} =3D supervisor:start_link({loca=
l,
> couch_server_sup}, couch_server_sup, BaseChildSpecs),
>
> No log entry.
>
> I know it returns {error, shutdown} instead of {ok, Pid}, but my question
> is how can I find what exactly is the problem there? Log level to debug
> doesn't add any other info.
>
> It's not a problem of permissions because I run couchdb as root. I used
> 0.0.0.0 as IP and the default values for the rest. The erl_crash.dump fil=
e
> doesn't provide other information (or I miss it, so, if anyone wants to
> inspect it, I can provide it).
>
> Regards,
> CGS