My totally wild guess is the node name in the vm.args across the two
systems is not matching.
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Andrea Brancatelli
On 2020-08-25 15:05, John Le Brasseur wrote:
> Hi.
> I copied the entire Couchdb 3.0 Installation from my Windows 10
> installation and saved it.
> I have a new Ubuntu 20.04 installation.
> After correctly installing CouchDB 3.1 on Ubuntu I deleted all files in the
> /var/lib/couchdb(data) directory and copied the files from my Windows /data
> directory into it.
> I changed ownership to couchdb:couchdb and directory modes to 755 and file
> modes to 644.
> Using curl I can access couchdb and _all_dbs. but when accessing a
> particular database I get
> {
> "error": "internal_server_error",
> "reason": "No DB shards could be opened.",
> "ref": 2822102114
> }
> Also, the databases are greyed out in fauxton.
>
> Obviously this is not best practice, but is there a way to make this work?