Mailing-List: contact user-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: user@couchdb.apache.org
Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: domain of dave@muse.net.nz designates
 209.85.160.52 as permitted sender)
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: 
 <CAHZBNKYraMiiCTThz7Gxo0EnzE-j-qJcFKHfhX3MVawSaZ1Tow@mail.gmail.com>
References: 
 <CAGxYWpZh_pNz3gH-WW544M3h8+=nLFYQo8vipAQBOpaN2CJJGQ@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAJ_m3YAMRFjVrCROUNK05hTqXtCb7ieZ3ED5D9-G6RF+G+v7Eg@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAGxYWpYnxV5r6tn03dkq9fxf84yp9fnYACZr5jkaD3sUc-huGA@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAGxYWpbVp9C+kmRviGE00gswa+S5NgSUE73nUiroD7+ibcB2ow@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAHZBNKYraMiiCTThz7Gxo0EnzE-j-qJcFKHfhX3MVawSaZ1Tow@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:07:53 +0200
Message-ID: 
 <CAHZBNKZhg=QNe7S=13kDH7DPT58fcji1kZuGu_WvEy=jwn_L2A@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: couchdb returning empty response
From: Dave Cottlehuber <dave@muse.net.nz>
To: user@couchdb.apache.org
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

On 16 August 2012 21:44, Dave Cottlehuber <dave@muse.net.nz> wrote:
> On 16 August 2012 17:16, Tim Tisdall <tisdall@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I tried running my code again and got a bunch of these entries in my logs:
>>
>> [Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:53:03 GMT] [error] [<0.20.0>] {error_report,<0.9.0>,
>>                                  {<0.20.0>,std_error,
>>                                   "File operation error: eacces.
>>
>> Target: ./mochiweb_response.beam. Function: get_file. Process:
>> code_server."}}
>>
>> here's the file listing for the file (as you can see it's readable by all):
>>
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 1420 Aug  7 21:11
>> /usr/local/lib/couchdb/erlang/lib/mochiweb-1.4.1/ebin/mochiweb_response.beam
>>
>
> As you noticed, this is file permissions related. So check all of
> those, esp permissions on the couchdb .beam files.
>
> If you're logged in as that user, does pushd
> /usr/local/lib/couchdb/erlang/lib/mochiweb-1.4.1/ebin && cat
> mochiweb_response.beam > /dev/null work?
>
> I usually do an
>
>     $ sudo -u couchdb couchdb -i
>
> to start couchdb in interactive mode before switching to daemon usage.
>
> Maybe a recursive chmod / chown on/usr/local/lib/couchdb is in order?
>
> If you let me know what arch/platform this is on, I'll check tomorrow
> on a fresh install if that doesn't fix it, using your notes provided.
>
> A+
> Dave

Having said all that, I don't see how couch could start with these
permissions, certainly not to the point of doing a bulk upload. So we
must be running out of some resource. Are you able to provide the json
privately to us for a look?

A+
Dave