I guess it was that, something to do with users. I was trying to restart via sudo /etc/init.d/couchdb _ , but I needed to execute utils/run.
Thanks, Francisco 2009/8/3 Paul Joseph Davis <[email protected]>: > > Francisco, > > Looks like you're running couchdb as a different user that doesn't have > write access to the existing couch files. > > Paul Davis > > On Aug 2, 2009, at 5:25 PM, francisco treacy <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I restarted CouchDB and now all I get is a super-cryptic Erlang-y error: >> >> curl http://localhost:5984/blog => >> {"error":"error","reason":"{{badmatch,{error,eacces}},\n >> [{couch_file,init,1},\n {gen_server,init_it,6},\n >> {proc_lib,init_p,5}]}"} >> >> However some URLs still work fine: >> curl http://localhost:5984/ => {"couchdb":"Welcome","version":"0.9.0"} >> curl http://localhost:5984/_all_dbs => ["blog","test"] >> >> I'm totally clueless. Any ideas? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Francisco >
