patrick take a look at http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Error_messages
specifically http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Error_messages#UnavailablePort -- Andrew Melo [email protected] On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:21 PM, patrick flaherty<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I know it's not supported but tried anyway. It being the precompiled, > windows 0.9.0 kit Nicholas pointed me to yesterday (as built > by Robert Hammond?). > > That is on my machine at work. Except work is Windows Server 2008 R2 (from > MSDN) while where I finally got the kit running > last night was on my laptop, running XP SP3, at home. > > Didn't really expect WS 2008 R2 to work, but am curious about the Erlang > crash trace (meaning, I want to become more > familiar with the Erlang code). > >> Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.6.5 [async-threads:0] >> >> Eshell V5.6.5 (abort with ^G) >> 1> Apache CouchDB 0.0.0 (LogLevel=info) is starting. >> {"init terminating in do_boot",{{badmatch,{error,shutdown}}, >> [{couch_server_sup,start_server,1}, >> {erl_eval,do_apply,5},{erl_eval,exprs,5},{init,start_it,1}, >> {init,start_em,1}]}} >> >> Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump >> init terminating in do_boot () >> >> >> Abnormal termination > > Does 'badmatch' above indicate that the Erlang couch-server code looks for > the OS it's on and if it's an unsupported OS, > one gets this trace? > > Where is there a good primer on Erlang (meaning, werl)? Say, query it for: > cwd, OS environment variables, etc. > > thanx - pat > > >
