Where can I find crash logs for couch?

[Sean Clark Hess <se...@gmail.com>]

Couch keeps crashing and there is never any information in the log. Where
does it put its crash logs?

Re: Where can I find crash logs for couch?

[Sean Clark Hess <se...@gmail.com>]

Yeah, happened again. Couch is offline, and service --status-all says
"couchdb dead but subsys locked".

The last thing in the log is a request that seems to have gone through.
What's going on??

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Sean Clark Hess <se...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I guess I don't know for sure. It just turns off every once in a while
> without any help, and "service --status-all" says something about couch
> being dead.
>
> The server is under little to no load at the moment.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Paul Davis <pa...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> How do you know that CouchDB is crashing? Is munin reporting a PID
>> change? If so, the Erlang VM can and will (by design) halt suddenly
>> without logging anything (and expect to be restarted by heart) in
>> which case there won't be anything logged.
>>
>> On the other hand if its a non-sudden crash sometimes Erlang will log
>> a crash dump in the $CWD where the VM was started which would likely
>> be $PREFIX/var/lib if you're using the init.d style scripts.
>>
>> Paul Davis
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Sean Clark Hess <se...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I only have couch.log in /usr/local/var/log/couchdb/ -- should there be
>> > something else? The crashes aren't showing up in the log. Maybe I need
>> to
>> > edit my ini file or something?
>> >
>> > ~sean
>> >
>> > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Paul Davis <
>> paul.joseph.davis@gmail.com>wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Sean Clark Hess <se...@gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Couch keeps crashing and there is never any information in the log.
>> Where
>> >> > does it put its crash logs?
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Check $PREFIX/var/log/couchd/ where $PREFIX defaults to /usr/local
>> >> unless you changed it when you did a ./configure or installed from a
>> >> package manager. Packages generally use /usr.
>> >>
>> >
>>
>
>

Re: Where can I find crash logs for couch?

[Sean Clark Hess <se...@gmail.com>]

I guess I don't know for sure. It just turns off every once in a while
without any help, and "service --status-all" says something about couch
being dead.

The server is under little to no load at the moment.

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Paul Davis <pa...@gmail.com>wrote:

> How do you know that CouchDB is crashing? Is munin reporting a PID
> change? If so, the Erlang VM can and will (by design) halt suddenly
> without logging anything (and expect to be restarted by heart) in
> which case there won't be anything logged.
>
> On the other hand if its a non-sudden crash sometimes Erlang will log
> a crash dump in the $CWD where the VM was started which would likely
> be $PREFIX/var/lib if you're using the init.d style scripts.
>
> Paul Davis
>
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Sean Clark Hess <se...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I only have couch.log in /usr/local/var/log/couchdb/ -- should there be
> > something else? The crashes aren't showing up in the log. Maybe I need to
> > edit my ini file or something?
> >
> > ~sean
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Paul Davis <paul.joseph.davis@gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Sean Clark Hess <se...@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Couch keeps crashing and there is never any information in the log.
> Where
> >> > does it put its crash logs?
> >> >
> >>
> >> Check $PREFIX/var/log/couchd/ where $PREFIX defaults to /usr/local
> >> unless you changed it when you did a ./configure or installed from a
> >> package manager. Packages generally use /usr.
> >>
> >
>

Re: Where can I find crash logs for couch?

[Paul Davis <pa...@gmail.com>]

How do you know that CouchDB is crashing? Is munin reporting a PID
change? If so, the Erlang VM can and will (by design) halt suddenly
without logging anything (and expect to be restarted by heart) in
which case there won't be anything logged.

On the other hand if its a non-sudden crash sometimes Erlang will log
a crash dump in the $CWD where the VM was started which would likely
be $PREFIX/var/lib if you're using the init.d style scripts.

Paul Davis

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Sean Clark Hess <se...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I only have couch.log in /usr/local/var/log/couchdb/ -- should there be
> something else? The crashes aren't showing up in the log. Maybe I need to
> edit my ini file or something?
>
> ~sean
>
> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Paul Davis <pa...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Sean Clark Hess <se...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Couch keeps crashing and there is never any information in the log. Where
>> > does it put its crash logs?
>> >
>>
>> Check $PREFIX/var/log/couchd/ where $PREFIX defaults to /usr/local
>> unless you changed it when you did a ./configure or installed from a
>> package manager. Packages generally use /usr.
>>
>

Re: Where can I find crash logs for couch?

[Sean Clark Hess <se...@gmail.com>]

I only have couch.log in /usr/local/var/log/couchdb/ -- should there be
something else? The crashes aren't showing up in the log. Maybe I need to
edit my ini file or something?

~sean

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Paul Davis <pa...@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Sean Clark Hess <se...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Couch keeps crashing and there is never any information in the log. Where
> > does it put its crash logs?
> >
>
> Check $PREFIX/var/log/couchd/ where $PREFIX defaults to /usr/local
> unless you changed it when you did a ./configure or installed from a
> package manager. Packages generally use /usr.
>

Re: Where can I find crash logs for couch?

[Paul Davis <pa...@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Sean Clark Hess <se...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Couch keeps crashing and there is never any information in the log. Where
> does it put its crash logs?
>

Check $PREFIX/var/log/couchd/ where $PREFIX defaults to /usr/local
unless you changed it when you did a ./configure or installed from a
package manager. Packages generally use /usr.