Restarting on Fedora

["Brizic Michael (Nokia-LC/Chicago)" <mi...@nokia.com>]

Seemingly, I installed CouchDB successfully on Fedora17 (64-bit), using these instructions: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_Fedora17 , however, I had to use sudo because the application failed to create the couchdb user.  So the owner of all couchdb directories/files is root.

But, I was able to start couchdb without a problem, running as root.

However, after restarting the machine, and attempting to run: sudo /usr/bin/couchdb, I am receiving the following error (and it fails to start):
[info] [<0.32.0>] Apache CouchDB has started on http://10.8.124.23:5984/
[error] [<0.31.0>] {error_report,<0.31.0>,
                    {<0.31.0>,crash_report,
                     [[{initial_call,
                        {application_master,init,
                         ['Argument__1','Argument__2','Argument__3',
                          'Argument__4']}},
                       {pid,<0.31.0>},
                       {registered_name,[]},
                       {error_info,
                        {exit,
                         {bad_return,
                          {{couch_app,start,
                            [normal,
                             ["/etc/couchdb/default.ini",
                              "/etc/couchdb/local.ini"]]},
                           {'EXIT',
                            {{badmatch,{error,enoent}},
                             [{couch_server_sup,start_server,1,
                               [{file,"couch_server_sup.erl"},{line,138}]},
                              {application_master,start_it_old,4,
                               [{file,"application_master.erl"},
                                {line,274}]}]}}}},
                         [{application_master,init,4,
                           [{file,"application_master.erl"},{line,138}]},
                          {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3,
                           [{file,"proc_lib.erl"},{line,227}]}]}},
                       {ancestors,[<0.30.0>]},
                       {messages,[{'EXIT',<0.32.0>,normal}]},
                       {links,[<0.30.0>,<0.7.0>]},
                       {dictionary,[]},
                       {trap_exit,true},
                       {status,running},
                       {heap_size,610},
                       {stack_size,24},
                       {reductions,100}],
                      []]}}

=CRASH REPORT==== 24-Oct-2012::09:50:49 ===
  crasher:
    initial call: application_master:init/4
    pid: <0.31.0>
    registered_name: []
    exception exit: {bad_return,
                        {{couch_app,start,
                             [normal,
                              ["/etc/couchdb/default.ini",
                               "/etc/couchdb/local.ini"]]},
                         {'EXIT',
                             {{badmatch,{error,enoent}},
                              [{couch_server_sup,start_server,1,
                                   [{file,"couch_server_sup.erl"},{line,138}]},
                               {application_master,start_it_old,4,
                                   [{file,"application_master.erl"},
                                    {line,274}]}]}}}}
      in function  application_master:init/4 (application_master.erl, line 138)
    ancestors: [<0.30.0>]
    messages: [{'EXIT',<0.32.0>,normal}]
    links: [<0.30.0>,<0.7.0>]
    dictionary: []
    trap_exit: true
    status: running
    heap_size: 610
    stack_size: 24
    reductions: 100
  neighbours:

=INFO REPORT==== 24-Oct-2012::09:50:49 ===
    application: couch
    exited: {bad_return,
                {{couch_app,start,
                     [normal,
                      ["/etc/couchdb/default.ini","/etc/couchdb/local.ini"]]},
                 {'EXIT',
                     {{badmatch,{error,enoent}},
                      [{couch_server_sup,start_server,1,
                           [{file,"couch_server_sup.erl"},{line,138}]},
                       {application_master,start_it_old,4,
                           [{file,"application_master.erl"},{line,274}]}]}}}}
    type: temporary
[info] [<0.97.0>] Stopping all ongoing replications because the replicator database was deleted or changed

I researched the MarkMail for anything related to this problem, including perhaps not having the correct permissions, and this is the best I could find:

the key part is "enoent" = file or directory not found.
Most possible causes are; the var/run/ var/log/couchdb/ var/lib/couchdb/ dirs don't exist, or ditto for local.ini default.ini  ,for some reason are not available.

Yup, the directory /opt/local/var/run/couchdb/ didn't exist. I created that directory and was able to start CouchDB without it crashing. Either a recent upgrade deleted that directory or the upgrade changed the value of uri_file in default.ini (more likely).

So I check the above and find that /var/run/couchdb directory does not exist.  Is this the problem ??

Also, what is the couchdb.uri file, and why is that directory missing after I restarted the machine?

I would appreciate any other feedback regarding why I cannot restart easily.

Thanks,
Mike Brizic

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