Mark, looks like it's the file:sync calls. Can you try this patch?
Index: src/couchdb/couch_file.erl
===================================================================
--- src/couchdb/couch_file.erl (revision 957790)
+++ src/couchdb/couch_file.erl (working copy)
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@
%%----------------------------------------------------------------------
sync(Filepath) when is_list(Filepath) ->
- {ok, Fd} = file:open(Filepath, [read, raw]),
+ {ok, Fd} = file:open(Filepath, [write, raw]),
try file:sync(Fd) after file:close(Fd) end;
sync(Fd) ->
gen_server:call(Fd, sync, infinity).
On Jun 26, 2010, at 6:50 PM, Mark Hammond wrote:
> On 27/06/2010 5:35 AM, Damien Katz wrote:
>> This looks like the auth_cache process can't create the _users db,
>> though I'm not sure why it would have that problem. It might be
>> windows can't create dbs at all.
>
> It did create var/lib/couchdb/_users.couch before it failed.
>>
>> Can you remove this from your default.ini:
>> auth_cache={couch_auth_cache, start_link, []}
>>
>> Then try to create a new db from futon?
>
> That seems to work. The test suite fails in all kinds of ways - but none
> appear to be permissions related as we saw before. It is now in the state
> where tests are all reporting I'm not a server admin and are refusing to
> re-run until I restart couch.
>
> At least some of the failures report the same traceback as before - eg, the
> first test, 'basics', reports as below.
>
> Also, I forgot to mention I'm doing this from the trunk - even after reading
> the other messages in this thread I'm not sure if that is correct or not...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
> 1> [error] [<0.123.0>] ** Generic server <0.123.0> terminating
> ** Last message in was full_commit
> ** When Server state == {db,<0.122.0>,<0.123.0>,nil,<<"1277603206803340">>,
> <0.120.0>,<0.124.0>,
> {db_header,5,0,0,nil,nil,nil,0,nil,nil,1000},
> 0,
> {btree,<0.120.0>,
> {3865,{5,1}},
> #Fun<couch_db_updater.7.22788535>,
> #Fun<couch_db_updater.8.125873265>,
> #Fun<couch_btree.5.124754102>,
> #Fun<couch_db_updater.9.64028419>},
> {btree,<0.120.0>,
> {4382,6},
> #Fun<couch_db_updater.10.43731383>,
> #Fun<couch_db_updater.11.52950010>,
> #Fun<couch_btree.5.124754102>,
> #Fun<couch_db_updater.12.74260996>},
> {btree,<0.120.0>,nil,#Fun<couch_btree.0.83553141>,
> #Fun<couch_btree.1.30790806>,
> #Fun<couch_btree.2.124754102>,nil},
> 8,<<"test_suite_db">>,
> "../var/lib/couchdb/test_suite_db.couch",[],[],
> nil,
> {user_ctx,null,[],undefined},
> #Ref<0.0.0.339>,1000,
> [before_header,after_header,on_file_open],
> false}
> ** Reason for termination ==
> ** {{badmatch,{error,unknown}},
> [{couch_db_updater,commit_data,2},
> {couch_db_updater,handle_call,3},
> {gen_server,handle_msg,5},
> {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}
>
> 1>
>
