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Joan Touzet commented on COUCHDB-3142: -------------------------------------- OK, after dropping Fauxton and going straight to curl, I can reproduce this error. The command used is (excuse the double-quote escaping, this is required for using curl on Windows from the cli): {noformat} E:\relax\curl-7.49.1\src>curl -XPOST localhost:15984/_replicate -d "{\"source\":\"https://skimdb.npmjs.com/registry\", \"target\": \"testfoo\", \"create_target\": true}" -H "Content-Type: application/json" {"error":"checkpoint_commit_failure","reason":"Error updating the source checkpoint document: conflict"} {noformat} All 3 nodes' couch.log files are full of lines like this: {noformat} [error] 2016-09-12T04:53:49.628000Z node2@127.0.0.1 <0.16422.1> -------- Replicator: couldn't write document `validatr`, revision `1-feec25229077b0f2426dc9d205bc532a`, to target database `http://127.0.0.1:15984/testfoo/`. Error: `forbidden`, reason: `Please log in before writing to the db`. {noformat} > replication is broken in admin party > ------------------------------------ > > Key: COUCHDB-3142 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-3142 > Project: CouchDB > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Replication > Reporter: Robert Kowalski > > After replication of 4 documents in admin party I get: > [error] 2016-09-11T13:35:44.251445Z node2@127.0.0.1 <0.9183.0> -------- > Replicator: couldn't write document `spmbatch`, revision > `1-3d3f983c5948661dca3708b6662d9bd2`, to target database > `http://127.0.0.1:35984/blerg/`. Error: `forbidden`, reason: `Please log in > before writing to the db`. > Which was never the case before. Replication then stalls / retries forever -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)