Apparently, some dependencies were missing. I've tried to install the minimal number of packages needed to satisfy couchdb - and I seem to have missed some erlang libraries.
I don't know exactly which libraries are needed, but installing the 'erlang' package in ubuntu (as opposed to just 'erlang-dev' and 'erlang-base') solved this issue. a. On 9 July 2010 16:21, afters <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 9 July 2010 15:59, Fidel Viegas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Just follow the instructions found in >> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_Ubuntu >> > > Thanks, but I'm quite familiar with this page, and I've installed couch > several times on a normal Ubuntu (not a minimal one, like I'm trying now). > > I suspect the solution may be trivial, as the installation completed and > couch actually runs without crashing. > > If someone could point me to ways to detect what it's trying to do but > failing, that would be great. I know nothing about erlang, but if I must > debug, I'll learn how. > > >> All the best, >> >> Fidel. >> >> On 7/9/10, afters <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello everyone, >> > >> > I've successfully installed couch on a very minimal ubuntu vm. When I >> run >> > it, though, I don't get the usual 'time to relax', the log-file is not >> > created, and I cannot establish a connection to couch. >> > >> > Any thoughts on how to resolve this? >> > >> > Some more info: >> > - I run couch from couchdb's home dir via the installed 'bin/couchdb' >> script >> > (works great on my ubuntu desktop) >> > - var/{lib,log,run}/couchdb have proper permissions >> > - the installation process is about the same as on my ubuntu desktop >> > (prefix=/usr/local) except that on the minimal machine I installed >> > spidermonkey from source >> > >> > thanks, >> > a. >> > >> > >
