a non-responsive couch

[afters <af...@gmail.com>]

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.

Re: a non-responsive couch

[afters <af...@gmail.com>]

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 <af...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 9 July 2010 15:59, Fidel Viegas <fi...@gmail.com> 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 <af...@gmail.com> 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.
>> >
>>
>
>

Re: a non-responsive couch

[afters <af...@gmail.com>]

On 9 July 2010 15:59, Fidel Viegas <fi...@gmail.com> 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 <af...@gmail.com> 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.
> >
>

Re: a non-responsive couch

[Fidel Viegas <fi...@gmail.com>]

Just follow the instructions found in
http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_Ubuntu

All the best,

Fidel.

On 7/9/10, afters <af...@gmail.com> 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.
>