On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Oliver Boermans<boerm...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/8/4 Chris Anderson <jch...@apache.org>: >> There's an alternative build you could try, standing in a freshly >> untarred copy of the couchdb source, to be on the safe side: `make dev >> && utils/run` > > Finally got around to trying this and got what appears to be the same error. > > Here’s the whole output in case there is something relevant > <http://www.friendpaste.com/7KqBEJN7StwYjY8I3zkR9p> > > As suggested by Noah’s I’m attempting to test the couchdb user: > > $ login couchdb > Password: > No home directory /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb! > > Which is weird as I am looking at this directory now. > > Do I need to do more than: > $ sudo chown -R couchdb:couchdb /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb > > To give the couchdb user access to it? > > I’m sorry if this is elementary. > Ollie >
This is quite odd that some commands think this directory exists and others don't. Can you try removing and creating that directory? Paul Davis
