On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 6:29 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I have problems to get couchdb work. > > I installed it from svn on a ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS system. > > When i start /usr/local/etc/init.d/couchdb start it says "Starting database > server couchdb [ OK ]", the process is running but not listening on port > 5984, there is unfortunately not log output and when i stop it, it says > "Stopping database server couchdb [ OK ]", but the processes are still > running. > > I also installed erlang from source (Erlang R13B03 (erts-5.7.4)). I read that > this problem occurs when couchdb 0.9.x and 0.10.x is installed on the same > system, because of an erlang error, but i have only the current version of > couchdb installed. > > Any ideas? > > Many Thanks, > > Thomas > -- > GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! > Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 >
Thomas, Can you try running couchdb from the command line and pasting any output? Something like: $ sudo su - couchdb $ couchdb Generally these are permissions errors so you might check the README for the list of directories that need to be writable by the user running couchdb. HTH, Paul Davis
