Crash dump on 'couchdb' invocation

Thanks for the bug report, I'll try to figure this out.

Loading this dump in the erlang dump viewer doesn't seem to be showing anything useful just yet.

I did:

$ erl
1> crashdump_viewer:start().

and then started the crashdump viewer from my browser and loaded the file. It seemed to load ok.

I'll try reproducing in a vm to see if I can find any more descriptive information about what is making couchdb unhappy.

I can reproduce this on an upgrade also.

sudo /etc/init.d/couchdb start works fine, and gives me a running couchdb on http://127.0.0.1:5984/_utils/

sudo /etc/init.d/couchdb stop works fine, and shuts down couchdb.

emurphy@detox:~$ couchdb -i
Erlang R13B01 (erts-5.7.2) [source] [smp:2:2] [rq:2] [async-threads:0] [kernel-poll:true]

Eshell V5.7.2 (abort with ^G)
1> Apache CouchDB 0.10.0a (LogLevel=info) is starting.
{"init terminating in do_boot",{{badmatch,{error,shutdown}},[{couch_server_sup,start_server,1},{erl_eval,do_apply,5},{erl_eval,exprs,5},{init,start_it,1},{init,start_em,1}]}}

Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump
init terminating in do_boot ()

If I become the couchdb user before running /usr/bin/couchdb, it works fine. If I sudo /usr/bin/couchdb it works fine. Looks like a permissions thing, I need to check whether any user should be able to run /usr/bin/couchdb, or if we should move it somewhere else or change permissions on a file/dir somewhere.

So couchdb could provide a nicer error message, but this is expected that you have to be running as couchdb or using sudo in order to run /usr/bin/couchdb directly.