It looks wrong. If people want to uninstall CouchDB, they should use the
"uninstall" target with make. Instructions asking them to DELETE everything are
very irresponsible. Unless the user thinks hard about that that command is
about to do, they will loose all the data in their databases.
On 9 Mar 2010, at 15:54, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
> Hi Noah,
>
> On 9 Mar 2010, at 03:17, Apache Wiki wrote:
>
>> - == invalid UTF-8 JSON ==
>> -
>> - When upgrading from old versions of CouchDB, it is best to really get rid
>> of everything old. If you get strange errors and all but the simplest
>> actions appear to be broken, and especially if you are seeing
>> {"error":"bad_request","reason":"invalid UTF-8 JSON"} type of errors in
>> Futon, then you should try something like the following:
>> -
>> - {{{
>> - find /usr/local -name \*couch* | xargs rm -rf
>> - make && sudo make install
>> - }}}
>> -
>> - This was discussed on 13 Dec 2009 on the users mailing list, and the
>> resolution is discussed
>> -
>> [[http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-user/200912.mbox/%[email protected]%3e|here]]
>> and
>> -
>> [[http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-user/200912.mbox/%[email protected]%3e|here]]
>> -
>> -
>
> what's wrong with this information? I still see people running into the issue.
>
> Cheers
> Jan
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