Ah yes ... shame on me ... forgot the sudo! Thanks Jan!
You did figure out from the log because couch_log was the offender? Nicolas Dufour nrduf...@gmail.com -- “Investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” —Benjamin Franklin On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> wrote: > It looks like the user that is running the CouchDB process doesn't have > the necessary permissions to open the log files. > > Cheers > Jan > -- > > On 7 Jul 2010, at 22:45, Nicolas Dufour wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have recently installed Erlang OTP 14A and recompile the latest >> couchdb trunk against it (07/07/2010). >> >> And I get a nasty crash right at starting: >> >> Apache CouchDB 0.12.0a37f492f-git (LogLevel=info) is starting. >> >> =CRASH REPORT==== 7-Jul-2010::16:39:38 === >> crasher: >> initial call: couch_event_sup:init/1 >> pid: <0.79.0> >> registered_name: [] >> exception exit: {{badmatch, >> {'EXIT', >> {{badmatch,{error,eacces}}, >> [{couch_log,init,1}, >> {gen_event,server_add_handler,4}, >> {gen_event,handle_msg,5}, >> {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}}}, >> [{couch_event_sup,init,1}, >> {gen_server,init_it,6}, >> {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]} >> in function gen_server:init_it/6 >> ancestors: [couch_primary_services,couch_server_sup,<0.31.0>] >> messages: [] >> links: [<0.78.0>,<0.6.0>] >> dictionary: [] >> trap_exit: false >> status: running >> heap_size: 377 >> stack_size: 24 >> reductions: 116 >> neighbours: >> >> =SUPERVISOR REPORT==== 7-Jul-2010::16:39:38 === >> Supervisor: {local,couch_primary_services} >> Context: start_error >> Reason: {{badmatch,{'EXIT',{{badmatch,{error,eacces}}, >> [{couch_log,init,1}, >> {gen_event,server_add_handler,4}, >> {gen_event,handle_msg,5}, >> {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}}}, >> [{couch_event_sup,init,1}, >> {gen_server,init_it,6}, >> {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]} >> Offender: [{pid,undefined}, >> {name,couch_log}, >> {mfargs,{couch_log,start_link,[]}}, >> {restart_type,permanent}, >> {shutdown,brutal_kill}, >> {child_type,worker}] >> >> >> =SUPERVISOR REPORT==== 7-Jul-2010::16:39:38 === >> Supervisor: {local,couch_server_sup} >> Context: start_error >> Reason: shutdown >> Offender: [{pid,undefined}, >> {name,couch_primary_services}, >> {mfargs,{couch_server_sup,start_primary_services,[]}}, >> {restart_type,permanent}, >> {shutdown,infinity}, >> {child_type,supervisor}] >> >> >> =CRASH REPORT==== 7-Jul-2010::16:39:38 === >> crasher: >> initial call: application_master:init/4 >> pid: <0.30.0> >> registered_name: [] >> exception exit: {bad_return, >> {{couch_app,start, >> [normal, >> ["/usr/local/etc/couchdb/default.ini", >> "/usr/local/etc/couchdb/local.ini"]]}, >> {'EXIT', >> {{badmatch,{error,shutdown}}, >> [{couch_server_sup,start_server,1}, >> {application_master,start_it_old,4}]}}}} >> in function application_master:init/4 >> ancestors: [<0.29.0>] >> messages: [{'EXIT',<0.31.0>,normal}] >> links: [<0.29.0>,<0.7.0>] >> dictionary: [] >> trap_exit: true >> status: running >> heap_size: 987 >> stack_size: 24 >> reductions: 163 >> neighbours: >> >> =INFO REPORT==== 7-Jul-2010::16:39:38 === >> application: couch >> exited: {bad_return,{{couch_app,start, >> [normal, >> ["/usr/local/etc/couchdb/default.ini", >> "/usr/local/etc/couchdb/local.ini"]]}, >> {'EXIT',{{badmatch,{error,shutdown}}, >> [{couch_server_sup,start_server,1}, >> {application_master,start_it_old,4}]}}}} >> type: temporary >> >> >> With erl: >> >> Erlang R14A (erts-5.8) [source] [64-bit] [smp:2:2] [rq:2] >> [async-threads:0] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false] >> >> I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and did configure against xulrunner-devel-1.9.2.3 >> >> Any ideas or suggestions are welcome :) >> >> Thank you >> >> Nicolas Dufour >> nrduf...@gmail.com >> >> -- >> “Investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” >> —Benjamin Franklin > >