> Do you think it's a bug or misconfiguration in my system? Waht should I do > to help finding the solution?
To be honest, I have absolutely no idea. And I'm running out of ideas on how best to start figuring out what's going on here. The only thing I can think of is to start tearing into the init scripts and boot sequence bit by bit until you find something surprising. And by that I mean: Find the exact erl command used to start couchdb by echoing from the script. Run that directly, see if it gives any usable info. If not, start tearing into the startup procedure with Erlang print statements to see where it gets to. That's obviously not a lot of awesome, but I really can't think of anything better right now. Oh, though, you might throw an strace in to see if the VM is halting on something tragic. Something like: $ sudo su - couchdb $ strace -f couchdb You'll want to put that output on friendpaste or somewhere though rather than directly in the email cause it should be fairly large. Paul
