On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:04:14AM +0200, Andreas Wenk wrote: > Hm, I am not sure which Erlang Version is shipped with a newly installed > Lenny (maybe two months old ...). And I am quite sure that this was the > first CouchDB installaton on this machine. But does this matter anyway? > I thought if compiling first Erlang newly and then CouchDB it should be > linked to this Erlang version ... ?
I had a similar problem, where if there were old versions of couchdb lying around it would end up trying to start components from a wrong (old) version, and would freeze before it bound to port 5984. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-505 http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/200909.mbox/<[email protected]> (+ subsequent thread)
