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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 00:58:57 -0500
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Subject: Re: building couchdb 1.5 on centos 6.4
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I see.  Unfortunately I was in a rush so did not install the 
dependencies one by one...

Its sure that erlang-asn1 was missing.  But I am not sure it was the 
only one (since it was quicker to get the whole erlang package).

Thanks
Vivek

On 11/21/13, 8:17 PM, Alexander Shorin wrote:
> Hi Vivek!
>
> There was a reason to not have just yum install erlang since it gets
> also, for example, wxwidget dependencies which aren't uses in CouchDB
> and almost useless on servers.
>
> Is the erlang-asn1 the only missed component?
>
> --
> ,,,^..^,,,
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Vivek Pathak <vpathak@orgmeta.com> wrote:
>> Yes there was a missing dependency to erlang-asn1 on centos 6.4
>>
>> Perhaps the wiki document
>> (http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/install/unix.html ) can just say yum
>> install erlang instead of several (but incomplete) erlang-* it installs.
>>
>> The complete erl package does get this specific dependency (and any others
>> if they were missing)
>>
>> Thanks
>> Vivek
>>
>>
>> On 11/21/2013 10:07 AM, Robert Newson wrote:
>>> asn1 comes from your erlang install, we don't ship it, but it implies
>>> you're missing standard parts of erlang. I'm assuming debian or
>>> ubuntu, therefore "apt-get install erlang-asn1" and probably others.
>>> The policy that forces package maintainers to subdivide erlang because
>>> it's possible but not wise irks me.
>>>
>>> B.
>>>
>>> On 21 November 2013 14:58, Vivek Pathak <vpathak@orgmeta.com> wrote:
>>>> Thanks - I tried it.  There is something odd going on.  It says there is
>>>> no
>>>> such app, and while couchdb source seems to refer to it, I can not find
>>>> it
>>>> anywhere in the filesystem.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Erlang R14B04 (erts-5.8.5) [source] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [rq:8]
>>>> [async-threads:0] [kernel-poll:false]
>>>>
>>>> Eshell V5.8.5  (abort with ^G)
>>>> 1> application:start(asn1).
>>>> {error,{"no such file or directory","asn1.app"}}
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> # pwd
>>>> /opt/apache-couchdb-1.5.0/src
>>>>
>>>> # grep -R asn1 *
>>>> couchdb/couch_app.erl:    case start_apps([crypto, asn1, public_key,
>>>> sasl,
>>>> inets, oauth, ssl, ibrowse, syntax_tools, compiler, xmerl, mochiweb,
>>>> os_mon]) of
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/21/2013 09:36 AM, Robert Newson wrote:
>>>>> {app_would_not_start,asn1} is pretty telling.
>>>>>
>>>>> try 'erl' then "application:start(asn1)." and see what error you get.
>>>>> If it's a not_started for some other app, try starting that one.
>>>>> You'll probably do this a few times before finding the thing that
>>>>> fails to start. Likely, it will be one that requires zlib or libssl or
>>>>> something.
>>>>>
>>>>> B.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 21 November 2013 14:31, Vivek Pathak <vpathak@orgmeta.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was following the steps given in
>>>>>> http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/install/unix.html for couchdb 1.5
>>>>>> install
>>>>>> from source.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After installing dependencies through the yum commands, I could build
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> install couchdb.  Next I made changes to its home directory and gave
>>>>>> permissions for user couchdb to those directories.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Then I started couchdb but got error :
>>>>>>
>>>>>>        sudo -i -u couchdb /usr/local/bin/couchdb
>>>>>>       {"init terminating in
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> do_boot",{{badmatch,{error,{{app_would_not_start,asn1},{couch_app,start,[normal,["/usr/local/etc/couchdb/default.ini","/usr/local/etc/couchdb/local.ini"]]}}}},[{couch,start,0},{init,start_it,1},{init,start_em,1}]}}
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump
>>>>>> init terminating in do_boot ()
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Both erl and js-devel versions appear to be reasonable for what is
>>>>>> given
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> the install guide.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The crash dump is a large file.  Is there any guide on how to actually
>>>>>> locate what is causing the problem?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you
>>>>>> Vivek
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>